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

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., and his crew received orders to fly to a former German base in Tunisia. There were...

Kenneth Beckman trained with one crew prior to being sent overseas, then joined another crew just prior to leaving. He...

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

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

According to a report written by Jesse Wofford's tail gunner, on 10 January 1945, the crew witnessed a B-17 [Annotator'...

Henry Heim remembers flying from North Africa into Italy was more difficult. He thinks that might be because he did not...

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

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

Vincent Losada remembered a mission on 16 January 1945 where they headed to the town of Esson [Annotator's Note: Esson...

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

For most of George Beaugh's missions his crew would fly at 25,000 to 27,000 feet. On one mission they flew at 32,000...

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