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[Annotator's Note: Dr. Roscoe Brown served in the USAAF as a fighter pilot in the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter...

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

During his free time, Robert "Bob" Rickel slept, went to aircraft classes, or visited relatives in London [Annotator's...

Jack Buckner enlisted because he was patriotic. It was his duty. He always wanted to fly so it was a great opportunity...

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

Cary Salter was in a dogfight when his wing was hit. It flipped the plane over. He went to pull out and nothing...

Virgil Faust was born in Windber, Pennsylvania, an old gold mining town. [Annotator's Note: Faust was born in August...

Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

Norman Bussel had to bail out of his B-17 over Berlin, Germany on 29 April 1944. He had been struck by shrapnel in the...

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

Robert Heller was low on fuel and had to decide what to do. While looking for a field to take the plane down, he sent a...

Walter Ram and his fellow crewmates had to wait for another airplane before continuing their bombing missions. A female...

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