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[Annotator's Note: Darrell D. Gust served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

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

Robert Bueker flew 23 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]. [Annotator's Note...

Only one time did Frederick Amore come into a truly dangerous situation. He was not supposed to be in a "combat area,"...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

Mack Fitzgerald was a B-24 Liberator flight engineer from Georgia, assigned to the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd...

The first couple of bombing missions William Fili was on were "milk runs" [Annotator's Note: slang term used by...

[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, interviewee asks a woman off camera questions. She sometimes comes into the...

On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

When Maurice Hackler got to England, he stayed at Bovington for about a week, and experienced air raid warnings for the...

Richard Henry Hamilton bailed out of his plane, and after landing in a field he was greeted by a mob of villagers...

Norman Weber and his cousin heard a different sound to the sirens [Annotator’s Note: air raid sirens sounded near a...

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