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Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

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

Joseph O'Donnell went to Fallingbostel, XI-B [Annotator's Note: Stalag XI-B in Fallingbostel, Germany; he arrived on 3...

The first mission Paul Lefever participated in was the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator's Note: on 14 October 1943...

The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

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

Roland Dullnig was born in December 1921 in San Antonio [Annotator’s Note: San Antonio, Texas]. [Annotator’s Note:...

Glen Jostad was moved to Stalag XIII near Nuremburg. The Royal Air Force and the 8th Air Force provided a morale boost...

Thomas Eakes was born in November 1922 in Beaumont [Annotator's Note: Beaumont, Texas]. He had one older brother. His...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany after he bailed out of his plane [...

Red Cross packages would come once every few weeks. Even though Martin Richard smoked, he saved his cigarettes. He...

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