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On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

Lloyd Geist learned the art of bartering by trading a fifth of whiskey for a BMW [Annotator's Note: Bayerische Motoren...

Chester Strunk had not received mail from home during his last year as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. When...

[Annotators Note: Robert Shoens and the interviewer start the interview with some small chat about experiences both men...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

Jerome Harold Black got a call from General Lee [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General John Clifford Hodges Lee...

Early on, William Patrick Bonelli had to teach the pilot about flying, which he believes lead to him not being asked to...

Willard Haul "Jack" Coop's most memorable experience of World War 2 was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day...

Carrol Joy was born in Morris County about 25 miles south of Manhattan, Kansas in 1920. He had one brother and one...

Donald Bryan took off on 140 missions but only completed 138 of them. The bombers aborted on two of them because of...

Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...

Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...

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