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In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was serving with the 44th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 44th Bombardment...

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was captured and taken to Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, along with his copilot...

Otto Kirkpatrick went to college after he got back from the war. Before the war, he was working for the conservation...

James Kemp McLaughlin does not recall the modified B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] YB...

Vincent Losada remembered a mission on 16 January 1945 where they headed to the town of Esson [Annotator's Note: Esson...

William L. Snow [Annotator's Note: with the 812th Bombardment Squadron, 482nd Bombardment Group] completed 35 missions...

On Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses to change tapes.] John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew dropped bombs over...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

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