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Hewitt Brian Gomez's routine missions were to transport secret agents behind enemy lines to help the resistances in...

Raymond Cauble's first mission was to a concentration camp in Yugoslavia. A general went with Cauble. They dropped...

Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...

DeQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] got...

Walter Bala grew up in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan]. His parents were Polish immigrants, and Bala had...

Wendell Galbraith and his unit [Annotator's Note: 782nd Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]...

Cary Salter went to Florida for flight training. He graduated as a second lieutenant in 1943. [Annotator’s Note: Salter...

Vincent Losada remembered a mission on 16 January 1945 where they headed to the town of Esson [Annotator's Note: Esson...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

For most of George Beaugh's missions his crew would fly at 25,000 to 27,000 feet. On one mission they flew at 32,000...

Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

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