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Scheduled to take part in the bombing of German held oil fields in Romania, Robert Sweatt left Portreath, England on a...

With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...

[Annotator's Note: Nolan Ruiz was from Louisiana and he had joined the Army Air Corps, where he was trained as a ball...

While in an interrogation center in Frankfurt, Germany, Norman Bussel was not allowed to do anything to pass the time...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

The last mission Joseph Monteyne [Annotator's Note: a navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force 425 (Alouette) Squadron...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was taken by train to Frankfurt [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt, Germany] with his crew and...

George Roberts and his crewmates knew ahead of time if they were flying the next day. On the night of 7 October [...

William Howard went to Scotland. His father was born in Scotland and he still has relatives there. Howard and Bob [...

Richard Asbury flew 126 missions in the war. He only got into fights six times. He thought he was unlucky in...

Darrell Welch went to El Paso [Annotator's Note: El Paso, Texas] to get his physical. He went to Fort Bliss [Annotator'...

Philip Whitman's last seven missions were over Vienna, Austria. He made five trips over Ploesti [Annotator's Note:...

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