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On one raid, Bernard Smith remembers a plane behind them burst into flames. His first reaction was that it was pretty....

Asked if he had any problems with post traumatic stress disorder, he said he had some problems with loud, sudden noises...

Robert Wolff was called to active duty on 29 April 1942. He went to a class in Santa Ana [Annotator’s Note: Santa Ana,...

For most of George Beaugh's missions his crew would fly at 25,000 to 27,000 feet. On one mission they flew at 32,000...

Leonard Spivey was at the airfield for a few days. They were at the airfield on V-E Day. All hell was breaking loose on...

Eugene Henry Gierka never even unpacked when they [Annotator's Note: 39th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 10th...

Ryan O'Brien crashed on 10 December 1944. O'Brien had been sent to lead navigator school. He flew a lot in the lead...

When Steve Pisanos was in Vietnam he was to drop weapons and food to a convoy that was lost in the jungle. He got close...

Samuel W. Smith passed his instrument school training a week before graduation. He got a 250 dollar allowance to buy a...

William Albright was liberated in May 1945. He never knew what was going to happen from one day to the next and that...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was accepted into pilot school [Annotator's Note: after having been drafted and the accepted...

Irwin Stovroff flew his last mission on 13 August [Annotator's Note: 13 August 1944]. He felt great that it was to be...

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