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

Jack Rolfson was anxious to fly his first mission. He recalled he could not sleep the night before. At the time he flew...

George H. Roxandich [Annotator's Note: wounded and captured by Germans while serving with Company B, 415th Infantry...

Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...

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

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

William Albright was a ball turret gunner [Annotator's Note: on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber number 42-...

Stephen Ananian only knew he had flown his last mission after he landed, and his commander told him. Ananian wanted to...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

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

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk continues his discussion of the early B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

As a child, Elisabeth Bolster sat on her father's lap while Munich was being bombed by the Allies. She was comforted by...

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