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John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...

Kenneth Beckman trained with one crew prior to being sent overseas, then joined another crew just prior to leaving. He...

Ernest L. Poulson and the other prisoners were taken to a prison in Bucharest [Annotator's Note: Bucharest, Romania]....

Ingrid Radke-Azvedo could tell who was bombing Berlin at night by the sounds of the planes [Annotator's Note: Berlin...

James Kemp McLaughlin does not recall the modified B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] YB...

Paul James Grubb experienced his worse raid over Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His only wound resulted...

Henry Heim remembers flying from North Africa into Italy was more difficult. He thinks that might be because he did not...

The last mission Joseph Monteyne [Annotator's Note: a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force 425 (Alouette) Squadron...

Joseph Geary's baptism by fire was by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. He realized that the bursts...

William Howard went to Scotland. His father was born in Scotland and he still has relatives there. Howard and Bob [...

Frank Finklang was put with experienced crews for nine missions, and then his original crew was reformed to fly their...

As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...

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