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In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

Norman Riggsby was drafted. He then went to an examination. Afterward, he went to a reception center in Michigan. From...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's plane's [Annotator's Note: in the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force]...

Erico J. Catalano left the United States for Europe in July 1943 on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Paul what it was like to see Berlin, Germany as the target for the first...

Some of DeQuindre McGlaun's crew [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th...

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

Sent next to Ephrata, Washington, Carl Koone was issued a roll [Annotator's Note: bed roll], blankets and a folding cot...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Chester Strunk received only half the Red Cross parcels allocated to the prisoners. The Germans supplemented that food...

Wendell Galbraith has never told a story about the time he learned what it was like to go down in a plane while not...

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