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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...

Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

Perry Kerr was deployed to England in February 1945. They were constantly flying training missions before they started...

Bernard Peters still has some of the daily news sheets they put out regarding the war. They had to zig-zag [Annotator's...

Herbert Heilbrun believes in the power of prayer. On his fourth mission, Heilbrun was flying with 36 airplanes in nine...

Edgar A. Grabhorn's first ten missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator with the 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

William Howard finished training in the United States then was sent with a group to Greenland. They then went to...

Paul Lefever related in depth his mission to destroy a well protected V-2 rocket manufacturing site in Stettin [...

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

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

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