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When he arrived in England, Darrell D. Gust knew that at least a third of the original 28 crews that had gone over in...

Harley Bridger recalls a mission on 13 October, Friday the 13th, 1944 to Blechhammer, Germany. It was a synthetic oil...

Carl Platkin usually went to London [Annotator’s Note: London, England] alone because he had a couple of girlfriends...

Jack Sanders felt that despite its bad reputation, the B-24 [Annotator’s Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber...

Having completed basic training in the Army Air Forces, Teddy Kirkpatrick was sent to aircraft mechanics school in...

Frederick Amore was transferred to Payne Field in Cairo, Egypt and, because there were too many mechanics there, he did...

Robert Bueker and his crew [Annotator's Note: in the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] had a lot of secondary...

James Read Kirk was 17 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins in a room with airplane model and other memorabilia around. It sounds as if...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling, seats squeaking, and people in the background throughout this segment.] On...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

On 7 December 1941, Walter Douglas recalled that he was sitting in an apartment in Washington D.C. listening to the...

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