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Irving Baum flew seven combat missions [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd...

Glen Jostad describes his terrible experience during eight days transit from one Stalag to another. The cramped boxcar...

Alvin Callender was based at Shrewsbury, England, and he recalled one afternoon when the sky filled with Spitfires [...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...

Herbert Heilbrun did not care which theater he fought in as long as he was a part of the war. He got into training late...

Darrell Welch liked to say that he flew from England to North Africa and started a war. Rommel [Annotator's Note:...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

Robert "Bob" Rickel flew with the 379th Group [Annotator's Note: 524th Bombardment Squadron, 379th Bombardment Group,...

Herman Molen remembers his first mission with Captain Ted Tyler, nicknamed “Hard Luck” Tyler. He did not fly a mission...

During the mission of 10 January [Annotator's Note: 10 January 1945], Walter Bala's plane was returning to base when it...

Robert Bueker and his crew [Annotator's Note: in the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] had a lot of secondary...

John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...

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