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

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

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

Alfred Pierse Murphy would be briefed on missions [Annotator's Note: the missions he flew with the 322nd Bombardment...

[Annotator's Note: George Roberts served in the USAAF as a radio operator and gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Herman Molen volunteered to go on the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator’s Note: The Second Schweinfurt raid, also...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Chester Brewer how he found out about his crew being shot down during a mission...

The mission that sticks out the most to Bob Goebel was flown on 18 August [Annotator's Note: 18 August 1944]. There was...

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

Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

Darrell Welch trained on twin engine aircraft. He was flying bombers in flight school and assumed he was going to be a...

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