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As a replacement aircrewman, Wendell Galbraith was received with open arms. One of the raids in August [Annotator's...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

[Annotator's Note: John Paul served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Walter Douglas took advantage of the G.I. Bill to go to instrument flying school in Virginia and used it to purchase a...

Robert "Bob" Rickel fought in World War 2 to defend the United States. He fought because all his other friends fought...

Chester Brewer flew with the 8th Air Force. His crew was from all over the United States. He flew with the 3rd Division...

[Annotator's Note: There is a buzzing sound throughout this clip.] Newell Bertram Woodworth was born in June 1923 in...

Chester Strunk had not received mail from home during his last year as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. When...

Lloyd Geist was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in July 1921. His family moved to Houma...

On 20 July 1944, Richard Henry Hamilton and his crew on their B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that they went north instead of south on this mission. They headed across the North Sea....

On 31 May 1944, Frank Jasicko [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 781st Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group,...

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