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Robert J. "Bob" Goebel feels it was not a big deal to become an Ace [Annotator's Note: military aviator credited with...

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

Cary Salter was in a dogfight when his wing was hit. It flipped the plane over. He went to pull out and nothing...

Francis Neilson recalled one mission when one of their engines had gone out over the Adriatic Sea. When the second...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel and his group [Annotator's Note: 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force]...

James McDermott would get barley soup once in a while from the Germans [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work was done trying to improve the living conditions. They still...

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

Harley Bridger was a radio operator. He learned to use a lead ball to help with his radio transmitter. The B-24 [...

In December 1944, Constance Cresswell married an American who was stationed at a supply depot in England with the 8th...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

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

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