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The only thing Baynham recalls about any of his missions except for Dessau was the flak.The day after he was shot down...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

Francis Dymnicki was born in Yonkers, New York and lived there for ten years during the Depression until his father...

Harley Bridger and his crew lived in tents with six men each. They were fortunate with their engineer. Bridger felt the...

Irwin Stovroff feels that The National WWII Museum is a creation that could only have happened after a war like the one...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. wanted to be a pilot. In 1942, Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: a radio operator in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th...

After Paul James Grubb returned home on a transport [Annotator's Note: after completing 50 missions in Europe as a tail...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers the missions they went on usually had between 100 and 300 airplanes. Many missions were...

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

Robert "Bob" Rickel was born in Toledo, Ohio in July 1923. Rickel's father came to the United States from Poland....

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