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Wendell Galbraith got his draft notice [Annotator's Note: in July 1943] and returned [Annotator's Note: to the United...

Cary Salter went to Florida for flight training. He graduated as a second lieutenant in 1943. [Annotator’s Note: Salter...

William Laubner was assigned to fly overhead cover on a mission near Berlin, Germany. The other portion of the fighter...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Darrell D. Gust's second, third and fourth missions happened one day apart. Then a fog moved in, grounding the group [...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Dean Paynter arrived England around the middle of June 1944]. They started training there. He...

Robert Inghram lived in a room with an Eagle Squadron pilot [Annotator's Note: in Stalag Luft III, a prisoner of war...

Walter Douglas was on a bombardment mission near Berlin, Germany. After he dropped his bombs, he lost one of his...

Floyd Horne was fortunate that his first combat mission was short. It was near Calais [Annotator's Note: Calais, Hauts-...

Jack Rolfson does not recall having any burial services for fallen men in his squadron [Annotator's Note: 427th...

Hewitt Brian Gomez received his commission and received a 10-day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...

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

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