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The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...

A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...

Robert Rans' first impression of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was that it was...

Scheduled to take part in the bombing of German held oil fields in Romania, Robert Sweatt left Portreath, England on a...

Henry Heim was sent to North Africa and then to Italy. They bombed on the other side of the Alps out of Italy. His...

Paul James Grubb was part of the air war in support of the fierce ground fighting in the Alps before the German forces...

William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...

George Roberts took part in the 6 March [Annotator's Note: 6 March 1944] raid over Berlin during which 69 bombers were...

Norman Bussel had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress over Berlin, Germany. He and 65 other prisoners...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Geary to take him through the day of a bombing mission.] It is not as...

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