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Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

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

James Armstrong was assigned as a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber pilot and arrived in England in 1943. He...

After the war, trolley missions were flown to show ground personnel the damage that had been done to Germany. Donald...

After Richard Henry Hamilton finished high school in 1940, he raised poultry on the farm as a means of income until he...

John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...

Walter Bala and others would use bicycles as a mode of transportation on base [Annotator's note: RAF Old Buckenham,...

After 27 hours, Irving Baum and the other prisoners [Annotator's Note: after evacuating from Stalag Luft III in Sagan,...

James Kemp McLaughlin does not recall the modified B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] YB...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...

Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright was interrogated in Frankfurt, Germany after being shot down in late November 1943...

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