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Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

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

Upon graduation from armorer's school in Colorado, Austin Hustead was assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron, a P-47...

Herman Molen volunteered to go on the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator’s Note: The Second Schweinfurt raid, also...

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

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

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

It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...

Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator'...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: in Zagań, Poland] was not bad for James McDermott. It was a break between boredom...

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

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