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Nolan Ruiz and his crew had completed 20 of the requisite 25 missions in their tour of duty and he comments that they...

The worst part of the mission to Bremen for George Roberts was the fighters. Roberts operated his gun from the radio...

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

William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who served as a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the...

Irving Baum flew seven combat missions [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd...

James McDermott was being held in the British, North, compound at Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland. That is where The...

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

After war started, Alice Howie went to Arlington, Virginia to work for IBM [Annotator's Note: International Business...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla's most memorable mission [Annotator's Note: with the 550th Bombardment Squadron, 385th...

Returning home from overseas, Alonzo Emerson remembers enjoying steak and fresh milk, two foods they didn't have while...

On one mission, Bernard Smith's aircraft was taking off and the left wing began to dip. He got frightened and they hit...

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

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