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Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: and US Army Air Forces Second Lieutenant Edward T. Badder were captured after their...

On his seventeenth mission, Robert Sweatt was returning from Ludwigshafen, Germany when Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note...

Frank Buschmeier and the others were loaded onto trucks the following day and sent to a local base. The guys were...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. After being assigned to an air crew, Chester...

Frank Bostwick flew 35 missions over Europe. His whole crew stayed together and relatively uninjured during those...

William Howard and his crew got together every two years after the war. Their copilot, Kennedy, lives in Boston [...

Leonard Spivey was told that the war was over for him and that he would not be fighting again. Spivey gave them name,...

When Richard Candelaria returned to base he did rolls to signify his victories. The crew chiefs could tell that the...

Lowell Brueland's first combat mission in the Mustang was a piece of cake. He performed escort duty with a flight of...

Francis Neilson recalled one mission when one of their engines had gone out over the Adriatic Sea. When the second...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noises throughout the segment.] Wilfred Lawrence Weseman served in Italy...

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