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Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...

They had never seen rockets before they were attacked with them one day. A rocket hit Vincent Pale's B-24 [Annotator's...

Norris Morvant was drafted into the Army in late 1942 and was sent to a staging area in Alexandria [Annotator’s Note:...

Leonard Spivey enjoyed his baptism by fire on his first mission. Their first mission was on 22 June and they went to...

John Francis Angier was born in June 1923 in Burlington, Vermont. He feels fortunate he was brought up on a dairy farm...

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

Francis Dymnicki flew missions from France against Germany. There were few days off because of the perilous times. When...

John Keema and a lot of the guys he flew with had qualms about the Münster raid. Unfortunately he did not have anyone...

Chester Strunk was recruited and enlisted [Annotator's Note: in June 1942] but then told to return to college and await...

Ryan O'Brien and a friend went to watch the LA Bulldogs [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles Bulldogs] playing against the...

Frank Ramsey was born and raised in Charleston, West Virginia. He was born in March 1925. His father worked in real...

Samuel W. Smith was born in September 1924 in Texas. His father was killed when he was 12 years old. He was the oldest...

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