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Jack Sinise got hit a number of times [Annotator's Note: as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy...

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

Frank Finklang's first combat mission was to bomb Munich [Annotator's Note: Munich, Germany], however the weather was...

Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...

Lewis Thomas Easterling flew his last mission on 17 December 1944. One of the squadrons found a whole group of trains...

Harold Shook flew on the first 50 missions of his squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg’s first...

When there were indications that both German fronts were collapsing, Jack Lengsfield knew the war would soon be over....

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

Morale was not an issue in Walter Rozett's unit [Annotator's Note: 369th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...

John W. Towle flew his first missions over flying bomb sights in France. [Annotator's Note: The V-1 rocket bomb and V-2...

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