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James McDermott was not in England as early as the 305th Bombardment Group was. They had sent 16 planes on the...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

Gatewood led his squadron on his fourth mission. At 1 point during the raid he was all by himself and had to pull up to...

On 8 September 1942, Irving Baum entered the service and was sent to Camp Upton in Long Island, New York. Three days...

After nine months in a prison, William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17...

Richard Candelaria waited until dark then took off. He was armed with a .45 pistol that he tied around his neck to keep...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey was flying for Air Transport Command out of Shanghai, China.] They were involved in a...

Charles Childs was told he would be leading the Group [Annotator's Note: 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] soon....

Robert W. McDonald went to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey] for...

John Gibbons does not believe that there was much gloom and doom when they were told during the briefing that the...

Alfred Pierse Murphy and his brother were sent to Maxwell Field [Annotator's Note: now Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base...

William Howard flew a mission across the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel] as his first mission. They bombed...

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