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

John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

Walter Douglas was on a bombardment mission near Berlin, Germany. After he dropped his bombs, he lost one of his...

Samuel W. Smith was asked if he would be a lead crew. It would cut down his missions to 30. He would have to have more...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

The war made James Eyre Wainwright grow up. He was disappointed to have just missed out on the last mission [Annotator'...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...

In the Fall of 1944, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter...

Melbourne Sanford Courtney was born near Cynthiana, Kentucky in 1925. He lived on a family farm, and his memory of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Chester Brewer how he found out about his crew being shot down during a mission...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

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