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Most of Bernard Smith's missions were to railroad marshalling yards. [Annotator's Note: SMith walks off camera for a...

The worst part of the mission to Bremen for George Roberts was the fighters. Roberts operated his gun from the radio...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was assigned to the 467th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 467th Bombardment Group], 8th Air...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Upon arriving in England in...

Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After receiving his commission as a second...

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

When Martin Richard was inducted into the service, he could choose his branch of service. You could not volunteer, you...

The Halifax [Annotator's Note: Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber] did not carry quite as many bombs as the Lancaster [...

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

Glen Jostad was first held in a German prisoner of war camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug, Germany,...

William Howard finished training in the United States then was sent with a group to Greenland. They then went to...

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