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On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

Norman Weber and his cousin heard a different sound to the sirens [Annotator’s Note: air raid sirens sounded near a...

On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

James "Jim" L. Brooks [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] was...

Russell Brien was at the Foggia Airfield [Annotator's Note: the Pantanella Airfield was part of the Foggia Airfield...

In the Fall of 1944, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter...

The most memorable experience of the war for Omer Van Huylenbrouck is his first mission to Berlin [Annotator's Note:...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Chester Brewer about a story of when he threw his hat down at a colonel.]...

In his discussion of his first tour of duty, Kenneth Beckman shares an anecdote about his 25th mission. [Annotator's...

Herman Molen remembers his first mission with Captain Ted Tyler, nicknamed “Hard Luck” Tyler. He did not fly a mission...

When they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and the men on his aircrew] got back to the field they realized they had...

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