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Before the war, Edgar A. Grabhorn had gone to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana] to...

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

[Annotator's Note: William Fili was liberated from a prisoner of war camp in Bucharest, Romania on 23 August 1944.]...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was accepted into pilot school [Annotator's Note: after having been drafted and the accepted...

Lowell Brueland became Senior Flight Leader before the Normandy D-Day invasion. He had the opportunity to become the...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

Robert Tyler Oakes was a radio operator [Annotator's Note: on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 340th...

Henry Sherman Fouts' last combat mission [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron, 99th Bombardment Group...

Raymond Cauble just wanted to fly. There was a boy with them on the train to California. When they graduated, he went...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. remembers the mission flown to Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. Although the 8th...

Richard "Dick" Schneider had somewhat of a difficult time adjusting to civilian life upon his return to the United...

In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...

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