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Charles Childs did not like the Nazis. He admired the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] pilots, but did...

Perry Kerr was deployed to England in February 1945. They were constantly flying training missions before they started...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Germany on 26...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Sinise what his roughest mission was.] Besides one where they got hit and...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Henry Lederer what his first combat encounter was like.] It was an amazing...

Henry Lederer flew 92 missions. That is a lot when you wake up every morning and wonder if you are going to be around...

John Howland had been involved in Operation Fortitude in deceiving the Germans before D-Day. They were not affected by...

A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...

Edward Grant flew two liberation missions in Hungary. People were being forced to work in ammunition factories making...

Paul Lefever acknowledged that many men suffered because there was a stigma attached to going to a "flak house" for...

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