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The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

Francis Dymnicki flew missions from France against Germany. There were few days off because of the perilous times. When...

On the day Joseph Pilcher shot down an Fw-190 [Annotator’s Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], he was...

After ditching his plane [Annotator's Note: on 12 April 1944 over Perwez, Belgium], Gilbert S. Shawn worked with the...

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

Norma Jean Ford Beard lost her father in the war. His remains were only recovered recently. [Annotator’s Note: Beard's...

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

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

Chester Strunk received only half the Red Cross parcels allocated to the prisoners. The Germans supplemented that food...

Clarence Carlson was only stationed at St. John in France [Annotator's Note: Beaumont Sur Oise Airfield, Beaumont Sur...

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

After the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France], Lloyd Geist and his unit [Annotator's Note: 508th...

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