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Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

Harold Gournay flew out of Italy for 18 or 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Gournay served in the USAAF as a waist gunner...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's plane's [Annotator's Note: in the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force]...

[Annotator's Note: John Paul served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

James Armstrong continues describing his experience in the small French village of Vaux-sur-Seine, where he had been...

Among the many things Francis Neilson learned in Lincoln, Nebraska was that oxygen was a good cure for a hangover. In...

Robert A. Stachel was assigned to the 351st Squadron [Annotator's Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

Darrell D. Gust's second, third and fourth missions happened one day apart. Then a fog moved in, grounding the group [...

Harley Bridger and his crew lived in tents with six men each. They were fortunate with their engineer. Bridger felt the...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

George McGovern also read the Stars and Stripes, the Bible, and various newspapers. He sent home most of what he was...

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