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Samuel W. Smith got the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] up to top speed and buzzed...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

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

Recalling some of the highlights of his experiences, Harold Shook said it didn't look like the Luftwaffe [Annotator's...

Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks bomber pilot John Paul how he managed his crew.] The military is not a...

[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg’s first...

Chester Strunk was recruited and enlisted [Annotator's Note: in June 1942] but then told to return to college and await...

William Howard finished training in the United States then was sent with a group to Greenland. They then went to...

Herbert Heilbrun believes in the power of prayer. On his fourth mission, Heilbrun was flying with 36 airplanes in nine...

Edward Grant flew two liberation missions in Hungary. People were being forced to work in ammunition factories making...

[Annotator's Note: Darrell D. Gust served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

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