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The mission that sticks out the most to Bob Goebel was flown on 18 August [Annotator's Note: 18 August 1944]. There was...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

Ralph Francis Hogan landed in a farm field after bailing out of his plane. Initially when he landed, he thought he...

John W. Towle was stationed at Rattlesden, England. There are reunions with veterans of the 448th held in Rattlesden....

The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

John Howland had been involved in Operation Fortitude in deceiving the Germans before D-Day. They were not affected by...

Carl Platkin usually went to London [Annotator’s Note: London, England] alone because he had a couple of girlfriends...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

Of all the ground crew personnel, Edwin Sved recalled only one with whom his crew got close. He told the tale of a...

On 9 April [Annotator's Note: 9 April 1945], Russian shock troops burst into the hospital where Wendell Galbraith was a...

It was normal to lose two or three airplanes on any mission over a good target like Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna,...

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