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Early on 24 March [Annotator's Note: 24 March 1945], Jack Lengsfield was called into a briefing on what was to be the...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

John Paul and his crew had flown about five missions when his engineer told him he could not fly anymore. He said that...

Carroll Knutson flew his first mission as part of the thousand bomber raid over Berlin. He discusses his feelings in...

James Crane’s brother was taken prisoner by the Germans [Annotator’s Note: after being shot down over the Ploesti...

Richard Tangradi’s last mission was to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Frankfurt, Germany]. They had to abort the mission...

Some of DeQuindre McGlaun's crew [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th...

Wendell Galbraith landed in a yard that was like an apple orchard [Annotator's Note: after being shot down on 22 March...

Paul Bosworth and his crew flew their B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] to Wales. The...

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

When he arrived in England, Darrell D. Gust knew that at least a third of the original 28 crews that had gone over in...

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