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One morning around 1 May 1945, Paul Bosworth woke up to the smell of coffee which was unusual. He woke up Byron [...

Frank Curtis McBride was born in Kingston, New York in August 1920. He grew up in Shreveport [Annotator’s Note:...

Philip Whitman was born in May 1919 in Zion, Illinois. He lived there until he was 12 when he moved to Wenatchee,...

After France, Bernard Baker entered Germany. He went through Heidelberg and Darmstadt, Germany. In Darmstadt, Baker...

Barney Old Coyote’s unit received Presidential Unit Citations for the job they did in bombing bases in the...

John Howland became part of the Pathfinder force of the Eighth Air Force. They were accumulated in small squadrons...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was a navigator on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber that was heavily damaged...

John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...

They went aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in New York. The ship was full. Some of the men had been waiting aboard for a...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout the video.] William White Brainard [Annotator's Note:...

Edgar A. Grabhorn's group [Annotator's Note: 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...

Maurice Hackler recalled having been sent to Czechoslovakia, but they could only do visual bombing in that country....

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