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In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

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

Enemy fighters would come from all directions at the bombers. William Fili says they would dive fast and then turn away...

Out of 35 missions, Maurice Hackler only had one mission he considered a close call. He was flying deputy, watching the...

Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior went on a mission to Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany with the 509th...

Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. encountered German fighter jets. The Germans tried to surprise attack them, but the Americans...

[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was in London, England after being rescued in France.] Loring was asked where he wanted...

With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...

Being as friendly possible, Robert Heller and his crew surrendered. As far as he knew, only one of the crew had died,...

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