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[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Isham Davis [Annotator’s Note: serving...

When his crew got to Italy, Edwin Sved said they lived in tents in a farm field, and flew out of a makeshift airstrip...

Harley Bridger was a radio operator. He learned to use a lead ball to help with his radio transmitter. The B-24 [...

Enrique Cervantes flew about 25 missions over Europe. Although he classified those missions as uneventful, they were...

Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

Henry Lederer flew 92 missions. That is a lot when you wake up every morning and wonder if you are going to be around...

George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...

The first plane Dr. Roscoe Brown shot down was a Me-262 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter...

Lloyd Geist learned the art of bartering by trading a fifth of whiskey for a BMW [Annotator's Note: Bayerische Motoren...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Sinise what his roughest mission was.] Besides one where they got hit and...

William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...

Ennis C. Warren and his crew had an experienced officer fly their airplane on the first combat mission [Annotator’s...

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