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James Read Kirk was 17 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Darrell D. Gust's second, third and fourth missions happened one day apart. Then a fog moved in, grounding the group [...

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

Paul Bosworth was on a bombing mission just west of Dresden [Annotator's Note: Dresden, Germany]. They would normally...

Henry Heim was sent to North Africa and then to Italy. They bombed on the other side of the Alps out of Italy. His...

Floyd Horne says the B-26 [Annotator's Note: Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber] was a very tough airplane. He recalls...

When they arrived at Giebelstadt, Germany, Austin Hustead's squadron [Annotator's Note: 81st Fighter Squadron, 50th...

On their way back to the United States, they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and his crew] had to make a stop in the...

Edgar A. Grabhorn was born in 1924 in Annapolis [Annotator's Note: Annapolis, Maryland]. The Depression [Annotator's...

The first time Malcolm Higgins saw a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] he wondered how...

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