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

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's plane's [Annotator's Note: in the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force]...

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

Erico J. Catalano left the United States for Europe in July 1943 on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of...

Herman Molen was in the 305th Bombardment Group. They spent a lot of time training because of the weather. They would...

Floyd Horne says the B-26 [Annotator's Note: Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber] was a very tough airplane. He recalls...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] was part...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Charles Childs was told he would be leading the Group [Annotator's Note: 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] soon....

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

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

Chester Strunk received only half the Red Cross parcels allocated to the prisoners. The Germans supplemented that food...

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