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William Howard and his crew got together every two years after the war. Their copilot, Kennedy, lives in Boston [...

Enrique Cervantes recounts how at SAC [Annotator's Note: Strategic Air Command] headquarters he was asked to accompany...

Charles Moore was stationed in Orleans, France at the end of the war. He enjoyed the experience there. He had a...

Otto Kirkpatrick thought England was nice. The English welcomed them. It was another culture. He had flown to London [...

Otto Kirkpatrick talked with some of the guys about how the war affected them after Germany surrendered. Some of them...

Fred A. Stecher’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was being deployed overseas and boarding the Queen Mary...

Frank Buschmeier went to armament school in Denver, Colorado. In Denver, the men were split into training groups for...

John Arthur Stege briefly used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...

Joel Urice remembers the plane “Our Gal Sal” [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 100th...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...

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