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The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

After ditching his plane [Annotator's Note: on 12 April 1944 over Perwez, Belgium], Gilbert S. Shawn worked with the...

Robert Inghram was taken to Frankfurt and interrogated there [Annotator's Note: after being shot down and captured in...

On the day Joseph Pilcher shot down an Fw-190 [Annotator’s Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], he was...

Norma Jean Ford Beard lost her father in the war. His remains were only recovered recently. [Annotator’s Note: Beard's...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers the missions they went on usually had between 100 and 300 airplanes. Many missions were...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a buzzing sound throughout this clip.] Newell Bertram Woodworth arrived in England around...

You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...

When Martin Richard was inducted into the service, he could choose his branch of service. You could not volunteer, you...

William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...

Assigned as a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] pilot, Eben Smith arrived first in...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

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