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Arnol Sellars joined the Air Force Reserve so he could get a deferment [Annotator's Note: postponement of military...

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

John Noack called the base and they sent some trucks in to pick them up. They were in a new base which was a mudhole....

Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

When Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. received his commission and wings from the Army Air Corps in June 1944, his mother and...

Philip Whitman flew a mission to Blechhammer, Germany and they hit bad weather. They got into the clear and a pilot...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Gale Ammerman to describe 17 September 1944, the start of Operation Market...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

Joseph Armanini begins by discussing his early childhood growing up on a dairy farm in Santa Cruz County, California....

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC radio at the POW camp, but had no idea about the landings in Southern France....

Frank Bostwick arrived in Liverpool, England. Shortly afterward, the men were shipped to Northern Ireland for...

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