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John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...

Ralph Francis Hogan landed in a farm field after bailing out of his plane. Initially when he landed, he thought he...

[Annotator's Note: William Fili was liberated from a prisoner of war camp in Bucharest, Romania on 23 August 1944.]...

When John B. Butz arrived in Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] it was extremely run down. The citizens there...

Robert Tyler Oakes was a radio operator [Annotator's Note: on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 340th...

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

Glen Jostad was moved to Stalag XIII near Nuremburg. The Royal Air Force and the 8th Air Force provided a morale boost...

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

Jack Sanders felt that despite its bad reputation, the B-24 [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber...

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

Jack Sinise got hit a number of times [Annotator's Note: as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy...

There was a lot of "oohs and ahhs" at the mission briefing [Annotator's Note: for Victor Fienup's 17 August 1943...

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