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Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...

Jack Rolfson was anxious to fly his first mission. He recalled he could not sleep the night before. At the time he flew...

William Morris Paulk was sent to Lake Charles, Louisiana to join his flight crew where he stayed for two months. On 31...

In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...

Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

James Armstrong was assigned as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber pilot and arrived in England in 1943. He...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

[Annotator's Note: William Fili, his tail gunner, and radio operator were all captured and placed in a village jail...

A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...

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