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Assigned as a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] pilot, Eben Smith arrived first in...

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

In early 1944, Frank Jasicko [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 781st Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group]...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski joined his bomber crew in Casper, Wyoming in late 1944.] He was married on New Year...

The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

Alexander Jefferson's plane name was "Bubble Blue Subsoil." [Annotator's Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...

On the day Joseph Pilcher shot down an Fw-190 [Annotator’s Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], he was...

Robert Inghram learned that 72 of 75 of the escapees were captured. The senior German officer, named Lindeiner [...

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

Frank A. Wiswall graduated from aviation school and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in January 1943. He...

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

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