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Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Aubrey Bradley had always wanted to fly, but had never been in an airplane before he entered the Army Air Corps. His...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] Joseph Fulton Jr. served [Annotator’s Note: with...

The exact date that Irving Baum got to England [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron,...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was captured and taken to Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, along with his copilot...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses to change tapes.] John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew dropped bombs over...

Dabney Montgomery arrived in Bari, Italy in January 1944. It was the day after a heavy German bombardment. There were...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel feels it was not a big deal to become an Ace [Annotator's Note: military aviator credited with...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Paul what it was like to see Berlin, Germany as the target for the first...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

Recounting his experience in France after he was shot down, James Armstrong comments that the French people were very...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany. Once a prisoner of war, he was...

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