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

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

The Halifax [Annotator's Note: Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber] did not carry quite as many bombs as the Lancaster [...

Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note:...

Raymond Cauble just wanted to fly. There was a boy with them on the train to California. When they graduated, he went...

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

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

William Howard flew a mission across the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel] as his first mission. They bombed...

Frank Finklang's first combat mission was to bomb Munich [Annotator's Note: Munich, Germany], however the weather was...

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

Jack Buckner enlisted because he was patriotic. It was his duty. He always wanted to fly so it was a great opportunity...

When they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and the men on his aircrew] got back to the field they realized they had...

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