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Ryan O'Brien returned to his same crew after being hospitalized for an injury in a crash. His 35th mission was his last...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

They had never seen rockets before they were attacked with them one day. A rocket hit Vincent Pale's B-24 [Annotator's...

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

In April 1942, after received his pilot's wings, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. was transferred to the newly built Paine...

Chester Brewer went by train to Deopham Green, which was near his airbase [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Deopham...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. After being assigned to an air crew, Chester...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

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