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Jack Rolfson would get leave to London [Annotator's Note: London, England] every now and then. On specific missions to...

Robert "Bob" Rickel had to kick a bomb out of the bomb bay from a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Richard Tangradi thought about getting married to an English girl. He remembers some things like it just happened. He...

During a mission, Walter Bala's plane was hit over the target. A shell came through the plane and knocked out his...

Eugene Vaadi was assigned to the 385th Bombardment Group and flew 19 missions over Europe hitting Berlin, Nurenberg,...

Maurice Hackler's final mission gave him some concern. The departure of his pilot after Hackler's 30th mission meant...

While flying with Peaslee [Annotator's Note: Colonel Budd Peaslee], James Kemp McLaughlin did not mind that Peaslee had...

Reflecting on his wartime experiences, Oscar Higgenbotham comments that if you managed to make it through the war...

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

Hewitt Brian Gomez was a navigator training with his crew at Chatham Field [Annotator's Note: Chatham, Georgia]. He...

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

Raymond Cauble just wanted to fly. There was a boy with them on the train to California. When they graduated, he went...

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