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Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Frank A. Wiswall graduated from aviation school and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in January 1943. He...

Robert Rans was placed in a room with three other wounded prisoners of war at the Timisul de Jos prison camp in Timisu...

Walter Bala was called back to service for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953]. He had a new car and drove...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

The missions James Kemp McLaughlin flew without fighter cover were much tougher missions. When they took off, P-47s [...

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

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

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

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...

Assigned as a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] pilot, Eben Smith arrived first in...

Alexander Jefferson's plane name was "Bubble Blue Subsoil." [Annotator's Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...

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