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Jones Quincy Adams, Jr.'s worst mission was his third mission because it was the first with heavy flak [Annotator's...

James McDermott had bailed out of his stricken Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and could see it still going North. In 2007...

Herman Molen remembers his first mission with Captain Ted Tyler, nicknamed “Hard Luck” Tyler. He did not fly a mission...

Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group did a...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

Wendell Galbraith landed in a yard that was like an apple orchard [Annotator's Note: after being shot down on 22 March...

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

Robert "Bob" Rickel wanted to fly with his friend, Tony [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Anthony J...

In August 1943, Robert "Bob" Rickel went on his second mission, the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission [Annotator's Note:...

When Maurice Hackler got to England, he stayed at Bovington for about a week, and experienced air raid warnings for the...

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