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In the beginning of 1945, Linwood S. Inscoe, a replacement pilot, made his way to the 9th Air Force Headquarters...

It was normal to lose two or three airplanes on any mission over a good target like Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna,...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. is sure the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] kept planes...

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

Norman Riggsby was drafted. He then went to an examination. Afterward, he went to a reception center in Michigan. From...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

Herbert Heilbrun went through the cadets with Lyle Pearson. On 29 December [Annotator's Note: 29 December 1944],...

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

Recounting his experience in France after he was shot down, James Armstrong comments that the French people were very...

William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...

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

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