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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

Lowell Brueland named his Mustang [Annotator’s Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] after his half-...

In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...

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

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

George Grugett says the B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] is a wonderful airplane....

James Armstrong was assigned as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber pilot and arrived in England in 1943. He...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

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

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

When Francis Neilson got back to the United States, the war with Japan was still raging. He had a ten day furlough [...

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