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James Eyre Wainwright was sent to Lincoln, Nebraska to assign crews. After assignment, he went to Rapids City [...

Ryan O’Brien's most memorable experience was when the Messerschmitts [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109 or...

Robert Heller was flying at an unnerving altitude and had not yet reached his target when his plane was overtaken by...

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

William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who served as a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the...

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

Out of 35 missions, Maurice Hackler only had one mission he considered a close call. He was flying deputy, watching the...

Walter Ram arrived at his base in Bassingbourn, near London. His plane was part of the 94th Bombardment Group, 331st...

Having been shot down over France, James Armstrong was taken in by the French Resistance and was being kept in the town...

Herbert Heilbrun wrote his last letter before his final mission. [Annotator's Note: A baby has been crying in the...

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

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

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