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The fog finally lifted after months of bad weather, and on December 26, 1944, Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla [Annotator's...

Jack Buckner and his aircrew only flew missions in support of ground troops in invasions. For the invasion of Sicily,...

Wayne O. Hill would come in after the first responders to remove bombs. [Annotator’s Note: Hill discusses a Smithsonian...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

James Kemp McLaughlin was born in Charleston, West Virginia in December 1918. He grew up on a small farm and attended...

William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck went to England by boat. They traveled all over missing the submarines. He went on the RMS...

Paul James Grubb experienced his worse raid over Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His only wound resulted...

James McDermott had bailed out of his stricken Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and could see it still going North. In 2007...

Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army Air Forces] went overseas in October 1943 on the Argentina...

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