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[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, interviewee asks a woman off camera questions. She sometimes comes into the...

Irvin Kennedy flew 21 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group, 8th Air...

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

Edward Field was accepted [Annotator's Note: into the United States Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet Program] and was...

Norman Weber and his cousin heard a different sound to the sirens [Annotator’s Note: air raid sirens sounded near a...

Chester J. Butcher was sent overseas to England [Annotator's Note: with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group...

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

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

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

At the conclusion of World War 2, Teddy Kirkpatrick returned to Michigan. He briefly attended the University of...

Paul James Grubb was assigned to bombing runs over the Alps into France after a few days [Annotator's Note: he had...

In his discussion of his first tour of duty, Kenneth Beckman shares an anecdote about his 25th mission. [Annotator's...

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