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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,...

Richard "Dick" Schneider's first combat mission to bomb Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin, Germany] was not a lot of fun...

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

William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...

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

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

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

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

Returning from overseas where he had been in charge of Air Force maintenance instructors, Eben Smith recaps...

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

George Roberts remembers a pilot named Clyde Cosper. He was a sergeant who went through flight school and was...

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