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Charles Childs was told he would be leading the Group [Annotator's Note: 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] soon....

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks about Jack Buckner's last mission as a bombardier.] They would wake up around...

[Annotator's Note: James Kemp McLaughlin flew 39 missions during two combat tours in Europe in Boeing B-17 Flying...

Joseph O'Donnell was told he was going overseas by Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

The most memorable experience of the war for George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th...

Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...

In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was serving with the 44th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 44th Bombardment...

Otto Kirkpatrick went to college after he got back from the war. Before the war, he was working for the conservation...

A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

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