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Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...

Lloyd Geist's first mission was a sweep over France on 1 May 1944. The mission was uneventful. Geist recalled that he...

They [Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote and his older bother] went to gunnery school and did not know where they were...

Stephen Ananian flew 63 combat missions. In every major skirmish and dogfight he was in he never got hit. During the...

Irvin Kennedy was born and raised in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana] and...

Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] captured...

Chester Brewer saw his first person bail out on his first mission. The plane alongside of them was on fire. They had a...

Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...

Paul Lefever said he was not mistreated by his German captors, but was taken into town and left in a dark loft without...

Richard Henry Hamilton was born in September 1922 in Brattleboro, Vermont with three brothers and one sister. His...

When John Sacks retuned to Kansas there were no jobs and many of the factories were closing down. Many people were out...

Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

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