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Sequence of two images showing a hit bomber going down in flames. "Two shots of one of our bombers hit and going down...

Maurice Hackler recalled having been sent to Czechoslovakia, but they could only do visual bombing in that country....

Stephen Ananian's first combat mission was a ramrod mission, one where fighters escort bombers. Cowboys in the old days...

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

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force out of...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that they went north instead of south on this mission. They headed across the North Sea....

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

Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)]...

On Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr.'s worst mission was his third mission because it was the first with heavy flak [Annotator's...

Lorcey J. Sonnier began drinking too much after the war. He went back to farming when he returned home. He got married...

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