Search results

Map is loading...

Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was born in Vienna, Austria in December 1925. She had strict parents but her childhood was very...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After receiving his commission as a second...

When Joseph Geary would return from a mission, he and his crew would meet with a staff person and tell them what they...

Recounting his experience in France after he was shot down, James Armstrong comments that the French people were very...

Chester Strunk and his fellow crewmen were approached by locals on horseback immediately following their parachute...

Jack Holder [Annotator’s Note: serving with Patrol Bombing Squadron 103 (VPB-103)] flew missions across the English...

Lowell Brueland became Senior Flight Leader before the Normandy D-Day invasion. He had the opportunity to become the...

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

James "Jim" L. Brooks [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] was...

It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...

John T. "Jack" Race had to go through training to become an officer and to take a flight test to qualify him for a...

Oral History