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Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...

Leon Waldman was a waist gunner on the co-pilot’s side. Their crew flew 51 missions. [Annotator’s Note: Waldman...

Lorcey J. Sonnier mostly bombed oil depots, factories, plane factories, ball bearing factories and bridges. This helped...

Owen Gibb remembers that the Americans bombed during the day and the British bombed during the night. They flew B-17s [...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

Charles Childs did not like the Nazis. He admired the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] pilots, but did...

George Hardy's unit had one loss in training at Walterboro [Annotator's Note: Walterboro Army Air Field, South Carolina...

Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...

James "Jim" L. Brooks was born in January 1921 in Vinton, Virginia which was a rural area. Though his family lived on a...

In the Fall of 1944, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter...

John Angier was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft VII-A [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany] STalag VII...

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

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