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Glen Jostad describes his terrible experience during eight days transit from one Stalag to another. The cramped boxcar...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Harold Shook flew on the first 50 missions of his squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter...

Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...

When there were indications that both German fronts were collapsing, Jack Lengsfield knew the war would soon be over....

Floyd Horne's combat tour ended 10 August 1944. He went up to Chorley [Annotator's Note: Chorley, England] for three...

In the beginning of 1945, Linwood S. Inscoe, a replacement pilot, made his way to the 9th Air Force Headquarters...

As a "bomb-igator", Armiger Jagoe was busy every second of a flight and thought it was a fantastic position. He was...

[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, interviewee asks a woman off camera questions, and she sometimes comes into the...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. is sure the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] kept planes...

When Henry Schaller arrived at his base in Italy and saw the airplanes, he cried. He could not believe they actually...

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