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Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

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

You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...

Henry Heim was sent to North Africa and then to Italy. They bombed on the other side of the Alps out of Italy. His...

Chester Strunk was recruited and enlisted [Annotator's Note: in June 1942] but then told to return to college and await...

William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...

James McDermott had bailed out of his stricken Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and could see it still going North. In 2007...

Lowell Brueland's first combat mission in the Mustang was a piece of cake. He performed escort duty with a flight of...

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

Alonzo Emerson recaps a typical mission he flew as a B-25 Mitchell [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell...

[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip.] Jack Sinise had heard about the B-17 [Annotator's...

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

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