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Walter Rozett had a very good relationship with the enlisted men [Annotator's Note: on his bomber crew] and saw several...

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

The housing at Henry Sherman Fouts' base was very primitive. He slept on a canvas cot and had only a couple of blankets...

Charles Childs did not like the Nazis. He admired the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] pilots, but did...

Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note:...

As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator’s Note: There is white noise in the background throughout the segment.] When he went into service, Theodore...

John Angier says that once the planes were settled on the bomb run, they could not change positions and the enemy knew...

The twenty-first and the twenty-second missions stick out in James Siracuse's mind. On the twenty-first mission,...

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

James "Jim" L. Brooks was born in January 1921 in Vinton, Virginia which was a rural area. Though his family lived on a...

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

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