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When his crew got to Italy, Edwin Sved said they lived in tents in a farm field, and flew out of a makeshift airstrip...

Frank Finklang's first combat mission was to bomb Munich [Annotator's Note: Munich, Germany], however the weather was...

There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...

Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

When they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and the men on his aircrew] got back to the field they realized they had...

Raymond Cauble landed his aircraft after being wounded in flight and was taken to a hospital. That night it hurt, and...

Of all the ground crew personnel, Edwin Sved recalled only one with whom his crew got close. He told the tale of a...

Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...

James Read Kirk's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. served with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group, 5th Bombardment Wing,...

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