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Perry Kerr was deployed to England in February 1945. They were constantly flying training missions before they started...

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

James Armstrong describes the basic mission profile from being awakened in the morning to briefing, to manning up the...

Paul James Grubb experienced his worse raid over Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His only wound resulted...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: a radio operator in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th...

On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

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

Joseph Geary's baptism by fire was by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. He realized that the bursts...

George McGovern also read the Stars and Stripes, the Bible, and various newspapers. He sent home most of what he was...

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

Dr. Roscoe Brown was attacking a train one time. He was leading the squadron [Annotator's Note: 100th Fighter Squadron...

Ryan O'Brien returned to his same crew after being hospitalized for an injury in a crash. His 35th mission was his last...

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