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On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

Walter Douglas was on a bombardment mission near Berlin, Germany. After he dropped his bombs, he lost one of his...

Wayne O. Hill thought it was his patriotic duty to go to war. He had to join the Army because of his eyesight. He...

[Annotator's Note: Video glitches several times throughout this segment.] Bernard Kofsky enlisted in the Army but...

Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

A boyhood friend who was to meet James Pritchett for his graduation crashed and burned while giving night flying...

In France, Norris Morvant used his knowledge of the French language to act as a translator. He has many good memories...

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

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

The fighting in Africa was ongoing [Annotator's Note: in March 1943] when Darrell D. Gust was preparing for combat. He...

On 25 March 1938, the Greek freighter Steve Pisanos got a job aboard steamed to Oran, Algeria, in North Africa. He...

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