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Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer served in the USAAF as a tail gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers...

Mack Fitzgerald was from Georgia and he enlisted in the Army Air Force. Having trained as a B-24 Liberator flight...

Wendell Galbraith never used the voice radio. Voice radio was bomber to bomber. There was a 522 set which was bomber to...

Leon Hirsch saw his service as a great learning experience. He was given responsibilities greater than any he had...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

The only thing Baynham recalls about any of his missions except for Dessau was the flak.The day after he was shot down...

After his discharge, jobs were hard to find, so James Pritchett took advantage of the G.I. Bill and went back to...

Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...

He has no memory of VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], but Harold Shook remembered that on...

A month before Virgil Faust was liberated, the prisoners in the camp began hearing the artillery getting closer. Rumors...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers the missions they went on usually had between 100 and 300 airplanes. Many missions were...

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