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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Henry Lederer what his first combat encounter was like.] It was an amazing...

On missions to Ploesti [Annotator’s Note: Ploesti, Romania], Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal [Annotator’s Note: a co-pilot with...

Monroe S. Wolyn ended up flat on the floor of the plane. He heard a loud bang. He could not move. The wing had blown...

George Hardy flew out of Ramitelli [Annotator's Note: Ramitelli, Italy]. They would take off to the east, out over the...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: a radio operator in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th...

Owen Gibb had a machine gun that put out four thousand rounds a minute. The gun was on a turret. They flew at night....

John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...

Glen Jostad was moved to Stalag XIII near Nuremburg. The Royal Air Force and the 8th Air Force provided a morale boost...

Darrell Welch returned to the 4th Air Force in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], and was...

Jack Sanders felt that despite its bad reputation, the B-24 [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber...

In April 1942, after received his pilot's wings, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. was transferred to the newly built Paine...

Philip Whitman flew a mission to Blechhammer, Germany and they hit bad weather. They got into the clear and a pilot...

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