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Harley Bridger's crew was sent to Mitchell Field on Long Island, New York. They were assigned a new airplane and they...

Richard Candelaria and his German guards were becoming friends. The guards gave him cognac. The guards put him in a van...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. was born in December 1920 in Topeka, Kansas. He was raised in Osage City, Kansas and Omaha...

Lowell Brueland saw that Germany had its last big gasp during the Battle of the Bulge. His squadron [Annotator’s Note...

Lloyd Geist's first mission was a sweep over France on 1 May 1944. The mission was uneventful. Geist recalled that he...

Ray Garcia and Al Nickels [Annotator's Note: later United States Air Force Colonel Albert B. Nickels] both made the Air...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

[Annotator's Note: Darrell D. Gust served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Vincent Losada was commissioned as a flight officer after he received all his training. He was sent to Drew Air Force...

Monroe S. Wolyn was impressed by the military power of the 8th Air Force. Wolyn’s plane was in the lead group [...

One day Olen Grant was working on an airplane when a private notified him that someone was waiting to see him in the...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] stayed...

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