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Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

James McDermott was being held in the British, North, compound at Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland. That is where The...

Thomas Creekmore did what they told him [Annotator's Note: when Creekmore was drafted January 1943]. He told his wife...

Paul James Grubb was part of the air war in support of the fierce ground fighting in the Alps before the German forces...

Stephen Ananian went to New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He was going to fly overseas on a bomber...

John Angier had been shot down over Cologne, Germany, nearly beaten to death by civilians and saved from them by German...

Robert Tyler Oakes was a radio operator [Annotator's Note: on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 340th...

Richard Tangradi’s last mission was to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Frankfurt, Germany]. They had to abort the mission...

For Ryan O'Brien, going into combat was like going to play a football game. The flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft...

In the mid to late May 1944, John Sacks was sent to England with Aerial Transport Command, ATC [Annotators Note: Air...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

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