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The B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bomber crews typically did not fly every day;...

[Annotator's Note: After his bomber crashed, Richard Klenoski was in a rest home in England when the Germans...

Chester Strunk and his crewmates who were originally assigned together had flown with separate crews until they were...

[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, there is talking audible in the background] Chuck Bednarik served as a waist...

James Read Kirk's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...

Alexander Jefferson flew a mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. It was the first time Jefferson had...

During one mission when Lowell Brueland escorted allied bombers over Berlin, a flight of eight JU-88s [Annotator’s Note...

On 31 May 1944, Frank Jasicko [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 781st Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group,...

Enemy fighters would come from all directions at the bombers. William Fili says they would dive fast and then turn away...

In January 1944 the weather was good, and Carl Koone said Allied airplanes could be seen all over Europe "all day,...

When Carl Koone's bomb group [Annotator's Note: 99th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] moved to Italy, they were once...

Walter Douglas and his crew were given a choice to go on a mission as a spare. They decided to go as a spare. On their...

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