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When Maurice Hackler got to England, he stayed at Bovington for about a week, and experienced air raid warnings for the...

Frank Bostwick flew 35 missions over Europe. His whole crew stayed together and relatively uninjured during those...

After being badly wounded and captured by the Germans, Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the...

Donald Strait's first victory came when he was escorting B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

The French Resistance had taken James Armstrong via train to the town of Quimper, France. [Annotator's Note: Armstrong...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was assigned to the 561st Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force as a...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

After surviving ditching [Annotator's Note: in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber], Edward Field returned to his...

Victor Fienup does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th...

The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

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