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The 71st Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] usually guarded...

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

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

Norman Bussel arrived in Glasgow, Scotland and were greeted by a bagpipe band. The Red Cross had coffee and donuts but...

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

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

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

James Read Kirk's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

[Annotator's Note: George Roberts served in the USAAF as a radio operator and gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Paul Lefever related in depth his mission to destroy a well protected V-2 rocket manufacturing site in Stettin [...

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