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[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, there is talking audible in the background] Chuck Bednarik served as a waist...

After he enlisted, Carroll Knutson was evaluated and selected for training as a pilot. His training began at Maxwell...

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

On 31 May 1944, Frank Jasicko [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 781st Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group,...

Clyde East's combat philosophy worked for him as a pilot. When he caught sight of an enemy aircraft, it scared him, but...

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

Stanley Berman [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force in England] trained on a Stearman PT-17 [Annotator's Note:...

James Armstrong continues describing his experience in the small French village of Vaux-sur-Seine, where he had been...

Henry Sherman Fouts flew his first mission on 29 August 1944 [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron,...

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

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

Ralph Francis Hogan and his unit [Annotator's Note: 850th Bombardment Squadron, 490th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

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