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[Annotator's Note: Charles McGee served in the USAAF as a fighter pilot with the 302nd Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter...

Darrell Welch trained on twin engine aircraft. He was flying bombers in flight school and assumed he was going to be a...

Darrell Welch went to El Paso [Annotator's Note: El Paso, Texas] to get his physical. He went to Fort Bliss [Annotator'...

The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., and his crew received orders to fly to a former German base in Tunisia. There were...

On missions to Ploesti [Annotator’s Note: Ploesti, Romania], Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal [Annotator’s Note: a co-pilot with...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...

Darrell Welch liked to say that he flew from England to North Africa and started a war. Rommel [Annotator's Note:...

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

[Annotator's Note: William Fili, his tail gunner, and radio operator were all captured and placed in a village jail...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout the clip, Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. refers to papers he is holding as he discusses...

John Lawler flew a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] with the 2nd Squadron, 52nd...

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