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Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

Walter Bala grew up in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan]. His parents were Polish immigrants, and Bala had...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Frank Ramsey remembers they had spam sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches [Annotator’s Note: to eat while...

Jack Rolfson born in September 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in the city, went to school, and would ride his bike...

On 19 March 1945, Linwood S. Inscoe was on a mission [Annotator's Note: with 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group...

John Angier first met his crew in the spring of 1944 and then went overseas in a brand-new, shiny, silver B-17 [...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. is sure the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] kept planes...

While flying with Peaslee [Annotator's Note: Colonel Budd Peaslee], James Kemp McLaughlin did not mind that Peaslee had...

Richard Klenoski was at a rest home [Annotator's Note: a flak house; a designated rest home for American airmen who...

[Annotator’s Note: There is traffic noise in the background throughout this segment.] Thomas Beary served with the...

Alexander Jefferson flew a mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. It was the first time Jefferson had...

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