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The Halifax [Annotator's Note: Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber] did not carry quite as many bombs as the Lancaster [...

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

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was called up in February 1943 and sent to Miami [Annotator's Note: Miami, Florida] for...

William Howard flew a mission across the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel] as his first mission. They bombed...

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

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

Glen Jostad bailed out of his damaged Boeing B-17 heavy bomber and had a German fighter pass twice around him with the...

Leon Waldman was able to take leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] after 25...

Henry Sherman Fouts' last combat mission [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron, 99th Bombardment Group...

Bernard Peters still has some of the daily news sheets they put out regarding the war. They had to zig-zag [Annotator's...

In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: stationed in England with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group,...

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