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In the prison of war camp [Annotator’s Note: Stalag XVII-B, Krems, Austria], Virgil Faust learned to play the card game...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

Louis Cardenas jumped out of his aircraft and kept his senses about him. [Annotator’s Note: Cardenas had to bail out of...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

Some of the primary targets Robert Whitcomb hit were marshalling yards, research facilities, and factories. They made...

The first plane Dr. Roscoe Brown shot down was a Me-262 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter...

Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

James Elduff [Annotator’s Note: while serving as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers with the...

Ryan O'Brien was sent to March Field [Annotator's Note: now March Air Reserve Base, Riverside County, California] for...

Eugene W. Chambers' mission [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 406th Night Leaflet Squadron, 492nd Bombardment...

Kenneth R. Williams was born in Alton, Illinois in March 1922. He was an only child. He grew up in Illinois and Ohio....

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