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Returning from overseas where he had been in charge of Air Force maintenance instructors, Eben Smith recaps...

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

Joseph Monteyne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron 425 (Alouette)] had 20 officers in...

Harold Gournay flew out of Italy for 18 or 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Gournay served in the USAAF as a waist gunner...

Robert "Bob" Rickel went on a mission to Anklam [Annotator's Note: Anklam, Germany with the 524th Bombardment Squadron...

During a mission, Walter Bala's plane was hit over the target. A shell came through the plane and knocked out his...

Robert Heller was flying at an unnerving altitude and had not yet reached his target when his plane was overtaken by...

James McDermott considered the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the best airplane there was. He did not like the B-24 [...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] bailed out...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

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

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...

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