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[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

John B. Butz and his entire crew were transferred from the 460th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 760th Bombardment...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Walter Bala was born Walter Baloski in September 1923 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Polish...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2.]. Wilhelm Gehlen...

Henry Heim was sent to North Africa and then to Italy. They bombed on the other side of the Alps out of Italy. His...

Teddy Kirkpatrick continues recounting several of the missions he flew as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying...

Chester Strunk received only half the Red Cross parcels allocated to the prisoners. The Germans supplemented that food...

When Francis Neilson got back to the United States, the war with Japan was still raging. He had a ten day furlough [...

Lowell Brueland named his Mustang [Annotator’s Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] after his half-...

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

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

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