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Robert "Bob" Rickel wanted to fly with his friend, Tony [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Anthony J...

Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

Walter Bala and others would use bicycles as a mode of transportation on base [Annotator's note: RAF Old Buckenham,...

Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: in Zagań, Poland] was not bad for James McDermott. It was a break between boredom...

Robert A. Stachel was assigned to the 351st Squadron [Annotator's Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

Alonzo Emerson recaps a typical mission he flew as a B-25 Mitchell [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell...

When his crew got to Italy, Edwin Sved said they lived in tents in a farm field, and flew out of a makeshift airstrip...

William Laubner was assigned to fly overhead cover on a mission near Berlin, Germany. The other portion of the fighter...

Wendell Galbraith has never told a story about the time he learned what it was like to go down in a plane while not...

Jack Rolfson born in September 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in the city, went to school, and would ride his bike...

Robert Inghram lived in a room with an Eagle Squadron pilot [Annotator's Note: in Stalag Luft III, a prisoner of war...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., and his crew received orders to fly to a former German base in Tunisia. There were...

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