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Russian aircraft were strafing the area where Aubrey Bradley was being held, and he was given coffee and stale bread...

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

Willard Haul "Jack" Coop joined the 418th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in January 1945...

Trained as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bombardier, Dean Whittaker describes...

When Calvin Moret was at Godman Field near Fort Knox [Annotator’s Note: Kentucky], he noted that Italian and German...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, stationed in England] flew...

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

Ray Garcia landed in Italy in October 1944. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses to provide a brief break in the...

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

Joseph O'Donnell was told he was going overseas by Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

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

William Albright enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to fly, even though he had never flown before. He had...

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