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Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

Recounting his experience in France after he was shot down, James Armstrong comments that the French people were very...

Walter Ram exited the crammed boxcar with the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. They had trouble moving...

Sent next to Ephrata, Washington, Carl Koone was issued a roll [Annotator's Note: bed roll], blankets and a folding cot...

One of the targets Henry Sherman Fouts flew to [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron, 99th Bombardment...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

Ralph Francis Hogan was a staff sergeant when he was discharged at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He was stationed at...

Leon Waldman was able to take leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] after 25...

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