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The theater of conflict he was going to be assigned to after training made no difference to Donald Albert Carlson. You...

Mack Fitzgerald was a B-24 Liberator flight engineer from Georgia, assigned to the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd...

Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

After the normal briefing for Virgil Faust's second mission, he and the crew weren't much worried about the flight....

On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

Albion Kenneth Hutcherson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber serving with the...

On arrival in San Francisco, California, James Morehead reported to headquarters, and didn't like the planes he would...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout the interview as he had a stroke and has trouble...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Freeman Dyson considers strategic bombing in World War 2 to be a mistake. A decision was made in 1936 to emphasize that...

Jack Rolfson was anxious to fly his first mission. He recalled he could not sleep the night before. At the time he flew...

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

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