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

When Calvin Moret was at Godman Field near Fort Knox [Annotator’s Note: Kentucky], he noted that Italian and German...

eQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] was...

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...

The target for Wendell Galbraith's second mission [Annotator's Note: with the 782nd Bombardment Squadron, 465th...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

After the war, trolley missions were flown to show ground personnel the damage that had been done to Germany. Donald...

Daniel Samuelson had some close missions. They had several engine losses. They were alright. Flak [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph Krause recalls that he didn't keep his flight log book up to date while he flew the requisite 30 missions to...

Walter Bala was born Walter Baloski in September 1923 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Polish...

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

Bernard Smith was fortunate because when he got overseas, the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] had been...

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