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Herbert Heilbrun believes in the power of prayer. On his fourth mission, Heilbrun was flying with 36 airplanes in nine...

Henry Burkle would meet every crew that came back to get the word from the pilot to know what was wrong with the planes...

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

Robert Bueker flew 23 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]. [Annotator's Note...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

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

Paul Lefever related in depth his mission to destroy a well protected V-2 rocket manufacturing site in Stettin [...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

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

Lowell Brueland arrived in England from the United States. It was interesting being there. He witnessed beautiful...

Robert Wolff was given a new plane in Kearney [Annotator’s Note: Kearney, Nebraska], and from there they went to Maine...

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

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