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Hewitt Brian Gomez received his commission and received a 10-day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...

Walter Bala was stationed at Old Buckenham, England and lived in a Quonset hut with 16 other men. The hut had no...

After being badly wounded and captured by the Germans, Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the...

Lewis Thomas Easterling was put on a luxury liner in July 1944 and enjoyed his passage overseas. His ship landed in...

Mack Fitzgerald was from Georgia and he enlisted in the Army Air Force. After training as a B-24 Liberator flight...

Robert Wolff had leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in London [Annotator’s Note...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

Frank A. Wiswall was a bombardier in the 8th Air Force. His worst missions were to Bremen, Germany, dropping bombs on...

Chester Brewer flew with the 8th Air Force. His crew was from all over the United States. He flew with the 3rd Division...

Joseph Krause was stationed in Washington State while he continued his training to be a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. remembers the mission flown to Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. Although the 8th...

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