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Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...

Wallace Jeffery and the 300 or so troops in his unit got together after Paris. [Annotator’s Note: the unit was the...

William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...

Daniel Samuelson finished his 35 missions. He had flown over from Florida to Scotland and then went to England. After...

During Operation Varsity [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel, Germany], the glider pilots of one...

Steve Pisanos got his private pilot’s license. He studied from a booklet he had picked up while visiting a Greek Air...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Richard Klenoski what his impressions of England were.] They lived in tents. It...

Robert Walker was born in September 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama. His father died in 1931, leaving his widow with three...

Dr. Roscoe Brown’s crew chief was Marcellus Smith whose nickname was Chow Hound. He was a very dedicated crew chief....

Paul Bosworth and his crew flew their B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] to Wales. The...

Robert Shoens sent a telegram to his wife in Maine to let her know that he was coming home soon. There were a bunch of...

The war changed Bernard Smith's life like it changed everybody's. It is a different world. Up until 1945, and the...

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