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Cary Salter was in a dogfight when his wing was hit. It flipped the plane over. He went to pull out and nothing...

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

Otto Kirkpatrick was born in October 1921 in Marianna, Arkansas. In the summer of 1943, he graduated from navigation...

Harley Bridger was a radio operator. He learned to use a lead ball to help with his radio transmitter. The B-24 [...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

Robert Bueker flew 23 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]. [Annotator's Note...

Christian de Marcken's parents had seen the harbingers of war talked about how the situation resembled the prelude to...

Robert Inghram and the American prisoners [Annotator's Note: held in Stalag Luft III] were relocated from the East Camp...

[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with Floyd Horne discussing the bad reputation of the Martin B-26 Marauder medium...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

Assigned as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] gunner with the 527th Bombardment...

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