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[Annotator's Note: Joseph Krause served in the US Army Air Forces as a flight engineer and top turret gunner on a...

Darrell Welch returned home from North Africa in just under a year. He flew 61 missions. He has great praise for the B-...

Some of the primary targets Robert Whitcomb hit were marshalling yards, research facilities, and factories. They made...

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

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...

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

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

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

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

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

Defying orders, Francis Neilson took pictures and kept a journal of his flights, and later put together a book that,...

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