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Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

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

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

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

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

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

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

James Kemp McLaughlin could see the German fighters approaching. The Germans liked to attack from the front and when...

Robert W. Paschal was trained to hate the Germans and the Japanese so that troops would not have a problem shooting at...

Robert W. Paschal and his crew [Annotator’s Note: serving in the 613th Bombardment Squadron, 401st Bombardment Group]...

After Richard Henry Hamilton finished high school in 1940, he raised poultry on the farm as a means of income until he...

James Read Kirk's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...

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