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Clarence Derrington was captured by the Germans and taken to Stalag VI-G [Annotator's Note: near Bergisch-Neustadt]...

John B. Butz and his entire crew were transferred from the 460th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 760th Bombardment...

Ralph Francis Hogan was a staff sergeant when he was discharged at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He was stationed at...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

James Armstrong had bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber], which was shot...

After the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France], Lloyd Geist and his unit [Annotator's Note: 508th...

Robert Inghram learned that 72 of 75 of the escapees were captured. The senior German officer, named Lindeiner [...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

Raymond Cauble liked to the 17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber]. He had so many hours in...

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

Willard Haul "Jack" Coop joined the 418th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in January 1945...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Sinise what his roughest mission was.] Besides one where they got hit and...

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