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The fog in England was so bad that Alfred Pierse Murphy ran into a parked jeep on his return to the base from the PX [...

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

George McGovern never really used his doctorate. After he finished, he ended up working for the Democratic party of...

Irving Baum flew seven combat missions [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd...

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

Maurice Hackler recalled having been sent to Czechoslovakia, but they could only do visual bombing in that country....

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla's most memorable mission [Annotator's Note: with the 550th Bombardment Squadron, 385th...

Philip Whitman's 33rd mission was flown on 13 February 1945 over an oil refinery in Vienna, Austria. It was 53 degrees...

Describing a typical mission as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] waist gunner, Oscar...

Robert "Bob" Rickel flew with the 379th Group [Annotator's Note: 524th Bombardment Squadron, 379th Bombardment Group,...

Cary Salter flew 10 missions in early January and February [Annotator’s Note: presumably of 1944]. Many of the missions...

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