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In January 1945, Walter Douglas flew his last mission which was to Paderborn [Annotator's Note: Paderborn, Germany],...

After 27 hours, Irving Baum and the other prisoners [Annotator's Note: after evacuating from Stalag Luft III in Sagan,...

[Annotator’s Note: There is traffic noise in the background throughout this segment.] Thomas Beary was born Whitman,...

Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...

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

It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...

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

Herman Molen volunteered to go on the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator’s Note: The Second Schweinfurt raid, also...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Bueker to describe the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber he was a...

Kenneth Beckman's first mission [Annotator's Note: Beckman was a navigator in the 366th Bombardment Squadron, 305th...

Lloyd Reese was a bombardier on a B-24 for the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. He and...

Oral History