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

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

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

A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

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

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

Robert Jones was a late replacement pilot and went overseas in a convoy. It was so rough that for three days, they did...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

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

John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...

[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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