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In August 1943, Robert "Bob" Rickel went on his second mission, the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission [Annotator's Note:...

Chester Brewer was sent to Las Vegas, Nevada and fired every gun from BB guns [Annotator's Note: air gun that fires...

Baynham doesn't remember many details from his interrogation. He was accused of being a spy and was threatened with...

Eugene Vaadi was born 1 July 1921 Watertown, New York. He spent his life there until entering the military. His father...

[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as an A-20 pilot in the 669th Bombardment Squadron, 416th...

The drop zone for Operation Varsity was near Wessel, Germany, and James Pritchett described how General Montgomery's [...

After the normal briefing for Virgil Faust's second mission, he and the crew weren't much worried about the flight....

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that the number three engine burned through fuel lines to the number four engine. Their plane...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] managed a plant after the...

They [Annotator's Note: Robert Jones and his fellow aviation cadets at Maxwell Field, Alabama] did a lot of night...

John Noack had a premonition on the day he was shot down that he was not going to come home that day. Noack felt like...

Lloyd Geist recalls that during the Battle of Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France] he was sitting in his...

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