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Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...

Emile Engles' parents took care to tell their children that when dealing with the Germans, and particularly the Gestapo...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group did a...

After his B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] was shot down over Occupied France, Burnia...

David Foerster was in England for a short time. He had an uncle who was a colonel in the Army Signal Corps. His uncle...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. experienced enemy fire returning from a bombing mission to Hamm, Germany on 22 April 1944....

Some of the primary targets Robert Whitcomb hit were marshalling yards, research facilities, and factories. They made...

Following completion of gunnery training, Robert W. Paschal was sent to MacDill Field, Florida for advanced training....

In the Fall of 1944, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

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