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Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

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

James Morehead discusses his aerial victory while he was on an escort mission over Romania. He saw two planes that...

Paul James Grubb was part of the air war in support of the fierce ground fighting in the Alps before the German forces...

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

Norman Bussel and his crew were headed towards Berlin, Germany on 29 April 1944 on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress....

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

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

After reaching England, William Laubner and other new arrivals were indoctrinated by a major at Goxhill. The Americans...

Frank Finklang quickly learned from the "old timers" to hold onto K-rations [Annotator's Note: individual daily combat...

Frank Finklang was put with experienced crews for nine missions, and then his original crew was reformed to fly their...

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