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Harley Bridger and his crew lived in tents with six men each. They were fortunate with their engineer. Bridger felt the...

After being promoted to captain and finishing his last bombing mission, Jack Buckner left his group [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator’s Note: Omer Van Huylenbrouck served in the Army Air Forces as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying...

Wayne O. Hill thought it was his patriotic duty to go to war. He had to join the Army because of his eyesight. He...

At Wendover, there was a base regulation stating that there was never to be any ammunition present in an aircraft until...

George W. Bachmann, Junior was born in 1925 in Akron, Ohio and was raised there with one brother and two sisters. His...

Lloyd Reese trained to be a bombardier on the AT-11 [Annotator’s Note: Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan] and then the B-24 [...

James McDermott was at Moosburg [Annotator’s Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany] when the Germans surrendered. He...

Donald Dean Paynter attended basic training in Houston, Texas. He just remembers it being physical and he got a lot of...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Clayton Kelly Gross says the 354th Fighter Group was so proud of the 701 kills from the air that they had and in...

In late October 1944, Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. was sent to Naples, Italy by ship. The voyage took almost two weeks....

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