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The 85 gallon fuselage tank [Annotator's Note: on the North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] was an afterthought...

Eugene W. Chambers' mission [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 406th Night Leaflet Squadron, 492nd Bombardment...

Mack Fitzgerald was a 4th generation Irishman who was born and raised in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His father was a farmer....

Robert "Bob" Rickel had to kick a bomb out of the bomb bay from a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Lowell Brueland named his Mustang [Annotator’s Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] after his half-...

After the normal briefing for Virgil Faust's second mission, he and the crew weren't much worried about the flight....

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group did a...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was drafted and sworn into the army in July 1942. After taking aptitude tests, he was...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was assigned to the 467th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 467th Bombardment Group], 8th Air...

Ralph Boyer was on the SS Argentina with his crew heading to Europe. He slept with 15 other men in a stateroom. The...

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

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