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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...

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

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

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

Robert W. Paschal was trained to hate the Germans and the Japanese so that troops would not have a problem shooting at...

A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...

There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...

The missions George McGovern flew usually required between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of bombs, with ten of those bombs...

After surviving ditching [Annotator's Note: in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber], Edward Field returned to his...

Scheduled to take part in the bombing of German held oil fields in Romania, Robert Sweatt left Portreath, England on a...

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