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Assigned as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] gunner with the 527th Bombardment...

John Howland became part of the Pathfinder force of the Eighth Air Force. They were accumulated in small squadrons...

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

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

William L. Snow [Annotator's Note: with the 812th Bombardment Squadron, 482nd Bombardment Group] completed 35 missions...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew dropped food...

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

Aubrey Bradley had always wanted to fly, but had never been in an airplane before he entered the Army Air Corps. His...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks bomber pilot John Paul how he managed his crew.] The military is not a...

Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note:...

James Armstrong was assigned to Gowen Field outside of Boise, Idaho, where he began to train with his crew. He...

Dabney Montgomery arrived in Bari, Italy in January 1944. It was the day after a heavy German bombardment. There were...

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