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Henry Heim was sent to North Africa and then to Italy. They bombed on the other side of the Alps out of Italy. His...

The most memorable experience of the war for Omer Van Huylenbrouck is his first mission to Berlin [Annotator's Note:...

Donald Albert Carlson was in high school [Annotator's Note: when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

Jack Rolfson did not like the missions where he had to go behind enemy lines. When he was in the service, the Army...

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

Archie Maltbie’s first mission from England was against a French railroad bridge. Several pilots missed the bridge but...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that while traveling to Europe in a convoy, on one side all he could see was the ocean, and...

After being badly wounded and captured by the Germans, Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the...

Owen Gibb had a machine gun that put out four thousand rounds a minute. The gun was on a turret. They flew at night....

During the mission of 10 January [Annotator's Note: 10 January 1945], Walter Bala's plane was returning to base when it...

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

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