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Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

John Angier says that once the planes were settled on the bomb run, they could not change positions and the enemy knew...

Before the war, Edgar A. Grabhorn had gone to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana] to...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a woman off camera interjects with comments.] James Ramsey Golden slept in...

James Crane’s brother was taken prisoner by the Germans [Annotator’s Note: after being shot down over the Ploesti...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers the missions they went on usually had between 100 and 300 airplanes. Many missions were...

Harold Shook flew on the first 50 missions of his squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter...

The mission for which Henry Sherman Fouts was awarded the DFC [Annotator's Note: the Distinguished Flying Cross, or DFC...

[Annotator's Note: Thomas Eakes served in the US Army Air Forces with the 713th Bombardment Squadron, 448th Bombardment...

Returning from overseas where he had been in charge of Air Force maintenance instructors, Eben Smith recaps...

Thomas Bondola was held with about 150 other prisoners in a compound surrounded by barbed wire fencing [Annotator’s...

Hewitt Brian Gomez's routine missions were to transport secret agents behind enemy lines to help the resistances in...

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