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John Noack notes that it was a sad day when they returned to base. Everyone was down about it. Too many of the guys...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. would be woken up in the morning, go get breakfast, and then be briefed. They were shown maps...

Frank Ramsey had gunnery training in Arizona. They shot a lot of skeet. They had .30 caliber machine guns [Annotator's...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

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

Leahr believes that young people should be taught about what men like him went through. The racism and segregation he...

Robert Bueker returned to the United States in early July [Annotator's Note: July 1945]. He went to Reims, France first...

After ditching his plane [Annotator's Note: on 12 April 1944 over Perwez, Belgium], Gilbert S. Shawn worked with the...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne enlisted in the Army Air Forces at Chanute Field in Champaign County, Illinois in July...

In 1940, when Donald Strait joined the Observation Squadron [Annotator's Note: 119th Observation Squadron], it was his...

Samuel W. Smith remembers his flight engineer telling him that he dropped a screwdriver in the oil chamber. The B-24 [...

Paul Bosworth was in Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany] until he was liberated. The camp was...

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