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In 1940, when Donald Strait joined the Observation Squadron [Annotator's Note: 119th Observation Squadron], it was his...

Owen Gibb had a machine gun that put out four thousand rounds a minute. The gun was on a turret. They flew at night....

[Annotator's Note: Warren Schmitt served in the US Army Air Forces as a gunner on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

George Roberts remembers a pilot named Clyde Cosper. He was a sergeant who went through flight school and was...

John Paul and his crew had flown about five missions when his engineer told him he could not fly anymore. He said that...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

Irving Baum flew seven combat missions [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd...

Joseph Krause was stationed in Washington State while he continued his training to be a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing...

Donald Dean Paynter always had problems with his heated suit and would be freezing. He would have to go on oxygen at 12...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla's most memorable mission [Annotator's Note: with the 550th Bombardment Squadron, 385th...

Replacement pilots were in high demand in Europe so Joseph Pilcher was sent to Rennes, France for assignment to a...

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