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Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Rackley did not have much of a relationship with his commanding officer [Annotator's Note: Rackley is referring to his...

Henry Burkle was in service at Chanute Field, Illinois when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

The missions William Howard flew on D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

Richard Gibian had R...

The most memorable experience of the war for Omer Van Huylenbrouck is his first mission to Berlin [Annotator's Note:...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

Norman Cook finished his third phase of training in the Army Air Corps and was sent to Mitchell, South Dakota. He was...

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

Donald Dean Paynter had three separate occasions where some of their enlisted men were hit by flak [Annotator's Note:...

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