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Late in the war, Glen Jostad was relocated to a German prisoner of war camp near Moosberg, Germany [Annotator's Note:...

Bernard Smith was very comfortable as an armorer gunner. He and his crew got along very well. They were ecumenical....

Emile Engles' parents took care to tell their children that when dealing with the Germans, and particularly the Gestapo...

After the normal briefing for Virgil Faust's second mission, he and the crew weren't much worried about the flight....

Clyde East experienced a slow training program after entry into the Canadian Air Force. He was in flying school during...

[Annotator's Note: Video glitches several times throughout this segment.] Bernard Kofsky enlisted in the Army but...

Samuel W. Smith was asked if he would be a lead crew. It would cut down his missions to 30. He would have to have more...

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

On 9 April [Annotator's Note: 9 April 1945], Russian shock troops burst into the hospital where Wendell Galbraith was a...

Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

William Laubner went to Fort Dix, New Jersey after entering the Army. He received basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky...

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