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Joel Urice saw the hole in their plane before they landed. He does not remember ever discussing the missions with the...

After surviving ditching [Annotator's Note: in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber], Edward Field returned to his...

[Annotator's Note: William Fili, his tail gunner, and radio operator were all captured and placed in a village jail...

The missions George McGovern flew usually required between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of bombs, with ten of those bombs...

Frank A. Wiswall graduated from aviation school and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in January 1943. He...

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

The first plane Dr. Roscoe Brown shot down was a Me-262 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter...

The first mission Paul Lefever participated in was the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator's Note: on 14 October 1943...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

On Russell Brien's third mission his aircraft lost an engine. [Annotator's Note: Brien was a nose gunner on...

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

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

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