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

Maurice Hackler's final mission gave him some concern. The departure of his pilot after Hackler's 30th mission meant...

As a replacement aircrewman, Wendell Galbraith was received with open arms. One of the raids in August [Annotator's...

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

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

Reflecting on his wartime experiences, Oscar Higgenbotham comments that if you managed to make it through the war...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. remembers the mission flown to Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. Although the 8th...

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

Richard "Dick" Schneider had somewhat of a difficult time adjusting to civilian life upon his return to the United...

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

Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)]...

Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

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