Search results

Map is loading...

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

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

Lloyd Reese was a bombardier on a B-24 for the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force. He and...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was called up in February 1943 and sent to Miami [Annotator's Note: Miami, Florida] for...

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

On 19 March 1945, Linwood S. Inscoe was on a mission [Annotator's Note: with 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group...

The twenty-first and the twenty-second missions stick out in James Siracuse's mind. On the twenty-first mission,...

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

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

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

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. and his crew [Annotator's Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...

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

Oral History