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In July 1944, Frank Jasicko [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 781st Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group,...

Paul Lefever acknowledged that many men suffered because there was a stigma attached to going to a "flak house" for...

Early on 24 March [Annotator's Note: 24 March 1945], Jack Lengsfield was called into a briefing on what was to be the...

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

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] was part...

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

Walter Bala was stationed at Old Buckenham, England and lived in a Quonset hut with 16 other men. The hut had no...

Alvin Callender was based at Shrewsbury, England, and he recalled one afternoon when the sky filled with Spitfires [...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was assigned to the 467th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 467th Bombardment Group], 8th Air...

Enrique Cervantes flew about 25 missions over Europe. Although he classified those missions as uneventful, they were...

Paul Roach did five combat missions. They did a lot of resupplying. They were hauling gas in when Patton [Annotator's...

Henry Schaller's bomber [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy bomber] flew at 23,000 feet. It was 33...

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