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Chester Brewer flew with the 8th Air Force. His crew was from all over the United States. He flew with the 3rd Division...

Cary Salter flew 10 missions in early January and February [Annotator’s Note: presumably of 1944]. Many of the missions...

John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...

Darrell Welch liked to say that he flew from England to North Africa and started a war. Rommel [Annotator's Note:...

When he arrived in England, Darrell D. Gust knew that at least a third of the original 28 crews that had gone over in...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] was part...

Carl Platkin usually went to London [Annotator’s Note: London, England] alone because he had a couple of girlfriends...

Frederick Amore was transferred to Payne Field in Cairo, Egypt and, because there were too many mechanics there, he did...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was assigned to the 467th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 467th Bombardment Group], 8th Air...

Paul Bosworth and his crew flew their B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] to Wales. The...

After D-Day, on 10 June 1944, Austin Hustead's squadron [Annotator's Note: 81st Fighter Squadron, 50th Fighter Group,...

Donald Scott was a radio operator on the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, G.I. Jane [Annotator’s Note: B-17 #43-37520]. The...

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