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Before the war, Edgar A. Grabhorn had gone to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana] to...

When Clarence Carlson was assigned to England he had no idea what it would look like. The English were very good to...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

John Angier says that once the planes were settled on the bomb run, they could not change positions and the enemy knew...

Kenneth Beckman's first mission [Annotator's Note: Beckman was a navigator in the 366th Bombardment Squadron, 305th...

Herman Molen was in the 305th Bombardment Group. They spent a lot of time training because of the weather. They would...

Carroll Knutson flew his first mission as part of the thousand bomber raid over Berlin. He discusses his feelings in...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

James Crane’s brother was taken prisoner by the Germans [Annotator’s Note: after being shot down over the Ploesti...

John Paul and his crew had flown about five missions when his engineer told him he could not fly anymore. He said that...

Thomas Bondola was held with about 150 other prisoners in a compound surrounded by barbed wire fencing [Annotator’s...

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