Search results

Map is loading...

It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...

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

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was drafted and sworn into the army in July 1942. After taking aptitude tests, he was...

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

Victor Fienup does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th...

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

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

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

There were roughly 36 planes in each mission from the base [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Thurleigh in Thurleigh,...

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

Ralph Francis Hogan was a staff sergeant when he was discharged at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He was stationed at...

[Annotator’s Note: Francis Dolsen is listening to another veteran and the interviewer speaking. The interviewer...

Oral History