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A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

The twenty-first and the twenty-second missions stick out in James Siracuse's mind. On the twenty-first mission,...

Donald E. Casey served as deputy lead navigator for the 379th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in Kimbolton, England...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck went on his first combat mission with a different crew. It was nothing exciting. [Annotator's...

Robert Jones was a late replacement pilot and went overseas in a convoy. It was so rough that for three days, they did...

The exact date that Irving Baum got to England [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron,...

Eugene W. Chambers' mission [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 406th Night Leaflet Squadron, 492nd Bombardment...

The 85 gallon fuselage tank [Annotator's Note: on the North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] was an afterthought...

Returning from overseas where he had been in charge of Air Force maintenance instructors, Eben Smith recaps...

Robert "Bob" Rickel had to kick a bomb out of the bomb bay from a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Among the many things Francis Neilson learned in Lincoln, Nebraska was that oxygen was a good cure for a hangover. In...

George Roberts remembers a pilot named Clyde Cosper. He was a sergeant who went through flight school and was...

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