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Francis Neilson recalled one mission when one of their engines had gone out over the Adriatic Sea. When the second...

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

It was normal to lose two or three airplanes on any mission over a good target like Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna,...

Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that while traveling to Europe in a convoy, on one side all he could see was the ocean, and...

Henry Sherman Fouts flew his first mission on 29 August 1944 [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron,...

James McDermott would get barley soup once in a while from the Germans [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in...

Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

John Lawler flew a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] with the 2nd Squadron, 52nd...

Ralph Francis Hogan and his unit [Annotator's Note: 850th Bombardment Squadron, 490th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

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

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