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Glen Jostad bailed out of his damaged Boeing B-17 heavy bomber and had a German fighter pass twice around him with the...

Norman Cook finished his third phase of training in the Army Air Corps and was sent to Mitchell, South Dakota. He was...

In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was called up in February 1943 and sent to Miami [Annotator's Note: Miami, Florida] for...

Robert Bueker had navigation training in Hondo, Texas. He was in San Antonio [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] on...

Henry Schaller's bomber [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy bomber] flew at 23,000 feet. It was 33...

When Maurice Hackler got to England, he stayed at Bovington for about a week, and experienced air raid warnings for the...

Ray Garcia had contact with the Italian partisans who opposed Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian fascist dictator...

Russian aircraft were strafing the area where Aubrey Bradley was being held, and he was given coffee and stale bread...

Monroe S. Wolyn ended up flat on the floor of the plane. He heard a loud bang. He could not move. The wing had blown...

Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...

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