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Most of Bernard Smith's missions were to railroad marshalling yards. [Annotator's Note: SMith walks off camera for a...

James McDermott considered the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the best airplane there was. He did not like the B-24 [...

Richard "Dick" Schneider had somewhat of a difficult time adjusting to civilian life upon his return to the United...

Frank Bostwick arrived in Liverpool, England. Shortly afterward, the men were shipped to Northern Ireland for...

On William Fili's first mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania] on 5 April 1944, his was the only crew...

Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, stationed in England] flew...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

Paul James Grubb was assigned to bombing runs over the Alps into France after a few days [Annotator's Note: he had...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

On missions to Ploesti [Annotator’s Note: Ploesti, Romania], Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal [Annotator’s Note: a co-pilot with...

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