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Homer Cole flew 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Cole served in the US Army Air Forces as a tail gunner aboard...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noises throughout the segment.] Wilfred Lawrence Weseman served in Italy...

William Albright got along well with this crew. There were two or three of them who did things together. They were the...

John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...

Ingrid Radke-Azvedo could tell who was bombing Berlin at night by the sounds of the planes [Annotator's Note: Berlin...

James Kemp McLaughlin does not recall the modified B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] YB...

Lloyd Geist learned the art of bartering by trading a fifth of whiskey for a BMW [Annotator's Note: Bayerische Motoren...

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

Raymond Cauble lost his crew after he was wounded and was in recovery. His crew was shot down later. Cauble was wounded...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

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

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

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