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David Foerster was in England for a short time. He had an uncle who was a colonel in the Army Signal Corps. His uncle...

The next day Ralph Francis Hogan was imprisoned at a compound, the city was attacked. Instead of going in a bomb...

The first thing Paul Bosworth would do before a mission was get dressed and eat. They could be in the air for hours....

Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...

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

Austin Hustead recounts that as the front lines moved, the squadron [Annotator's Note: 81st Fighter Squadron, 50th...

John Howland became part of the Pathfinder force of the Eighth Air Force. They were accumulated in small squadrons...

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

Henry Burkle would meet every crew that came back to get the word from the pilot to know what was wrong with the planes...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

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

Robert "Bob” Ruiz was sent overseas on a ship in a convoy from New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. The...

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