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

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

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

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

Glen Jostad and other POWs were evacuated from their initial Stalag [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug,...

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

On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...

Archie Maltbie’s first mission from England was against a French railroad bridge. Several pilots missed the bridge but...

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

George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...

Norman Bussel was a prisoner of war inn Nuremberg [Annotator’s Note: Stalag XIII-D Nürnberg Langwasser; built on former...

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