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[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. After being assigned to an air crew, Chester...

John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was taken by train to Frankfurt [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt, Germany] with his crew and...

When Bernard Smith got back to the United States, he was interviewed and told he had a choice of schools where he could...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: stationed in England with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group,...

Henry Lederer says that over 600,000 people were killed in the Civil War. [Annotator's Note: American Civil War, 1861...

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

Kenneth R. Williams was born in Alton, Illinois in March 1922. He was an only child. He grew up in Illinois and Ohio....

While marching through the Ardennes, Robert Haffner recalls a German jet flying overhead and firing on the 82nd...

Robert Bueker flew 23 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]. [Annotator's Note...

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