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For most of George Beaugh's missions his crew would fly at 25,000 to 27,000 feet. On one mission they flew at 32,000...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was called up in February 1943 and sent to Miami [Annotator's Note: Miami, Florida] for...

Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

[Annotator's Note: After his bomber crashed, Richard Klenoski was in a rest home in England when the Germans...

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

William White Brainard served as a radioman on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] for...

Alexander Jefferson flew a mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. It was the first time Jefferson had...

It took a good month for Joseph Blouin to fly from West Palm Beach, Florida to England. The captain checking them in in...

John Angier had been shot down over Cologne, Germany, nearly beaten to death by civilians and saved from them by German...

Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator'...

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