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Bernard Smith was born in July 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He did not grow up there. They moved to Syracuse, New York...

In 1943, the 328th was stationed at Mitchell Field, Long Island, New York. The 47th was stationed down near the coast....

On one of Hewitt Brian Gomez's missions he and his crew spotted a German plane and they thought he was going to attack...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. wanted to be a pilot. In 1942, Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...

As the front moved, Wallace Jeffery and his unit moved. [Annotator’s Note: Jeffery was a radioman in a direction...

Thomas Creekmore was born in 1923 [Annotator's Note: December 1923] in Portsmouth, Virginia and grew up during the...

Strange things would happen in the air for Daniel Samuelson. He was well-trained. He would wear a mask for oxygen....

John Keema’s crew was forced to abort and did not fly the Schweinfurt mission. Münster was Keema’s fifteenth mission...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Monroe S. Wolyn was shown the railroad tickets. They went from Berlin to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Berlin and...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Germany on 26...

Wendell Galbraith has never told a story about the time he learned what it was like to go down in a plane while not...

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