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For Ryan O'Brien, going into combat was like going to play a football game. The flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft...

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

In his discussion of his first tour of duty, Kenneth Beckman shares an anecdote about his 25th mission. [Annotator's...

Paul James Grubb was assigned to bombing runs over the Alps into France after a few days [Annotator's Note: he had...

Raymond Cauble stayed in Italy until after Japan surrendered [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945...

Herman Molen remembers his first mission with Captain Ted Tyler, nicknamed “Hard Luck” Tyler. He did not fly a mission...

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Geary to take him through the day of a bombing mission.] It is not as...

John W. Towle flew his first missions over flying bomb sights in France. [Annotator's Note: The V-1 rocket bomb and V-2...

The first mission Paul Lefever participated in was the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator's Note: on 14 October 1943...

[Annotator's Note: James Kemp McLaughlin flew 39 missions during two combat tours in Europe in Boeing B-17 Flying...

[Annotator’s Note: There is white noise in the background throughout the segment.] When he went into service, Theodore...

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