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

Thomas Creekmore did what they told him [Annotator's Note: when Creekmore was drafted January 1943]. He told his wife...

Thomas Creekmore went overseas [Annotator's Note: in 1945], and he was an eager beaver. His pilot [Annotator's Note: in...

[Annotator's Note: Darrell D. Gust served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...

James McDermott would get barley soup once in a while from the Germans [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in...

Leon Waldman was a waist gunner on the co-pilot’s side. Their crew flew 51 missions. [Annotator’s Note: Waldman...

Only one time did Frederick Amore come into a truly dangerous situation. He was not supposed to be in a "combat area,"...

Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Owen Gibb remembers that the Americans bombed during the day and the British bombed during the night. They flew B-17s [...

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