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After receiving his commission, Edward Grant worked in Florida as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

A 109 Focke-Wulf [Annotator's Note: either a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190...

Herbert Heilbrun flew twin engines in his second stage of flight training. He flew the Cessna Bobcat [Annotator's Note...

Baynham was based at Tibenham, England where there were numerous airfields that were three or four miles apart. Every...

Robert Wolff had leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in London [Annotator’s Note...

Paul Bosworth was on a bombing mission just west of Dresden [Annotator's Note: Dresden, Germany]. They would normally...

Gilbert S. Shawn flew with Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note: later US Air Force Brigadier General James "Jimmy" Stewart...

On his first missions, Robert Walker was sent on four-plane flights to drop leaflet bombs over enemy territory. Each...

Richard Candelaria and his German guards were becoming friends. The guards gave him cognac. The guards put him in a van...

Samuel W. Smith remembers when the war ended in Europe, bombers were needed in the Pacific. There were 65 crews picked...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was very happy that the war was over. They had good food on the ship coming home. His wife...

John W. Towle volunteered for the service. He had been attending the University of Tennessee but had a wreck and was...

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