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Both Air Forces [Annotator's Note: the US Army Air Forces and the Royal Canadian Air Force] did a good job of...

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

Robert Rans' first impression of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was that it was...

John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...

Paul James Grubb was assigned to bombing runs over the Alps into France after a few days [Annotator's Note: he had...

Richard Asbury graduated from Mariana, Florida [Annotator's Note: Marianna Army Airfield] and went to Hamilton Field,...

Francis Neilson recalled one mission when one of their engines had gone out over the Adriatic Sea. When the second...

Ennis C. Warren and his crew had an experienced officer fly their airplane on the first combat mission [Annotator’s...

When Henry Schaller arrived at his base in Italy and saw the airplanes, he cried. He could not believe they actually...

George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

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

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