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Malcolm Higgins received messages from home [Annotator's note: while a prisoner of war at the Stalag Luft III POW camp...

John Sacks learned about the airplane [Annotator's Note: the completely restored Boeing B-17-E heavy bomber named My...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was a pilot during the Berlin Airlift in Germany.] The first time he landed, the door...

When tunneling Tom, Dick, and Harry [Annotator's Note: Tom, Dick, and Harry were the codenames for the tunnels being...

World War 2 changed William White Brainard’s life because he was able to take advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's...

Alfiero Giamberardino started screaming about the war's end when they heard about it on the radio. The British were on...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Mack Fitzgerald was a B-24 Liberator flight engineer from Georgia, assigned to the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd...

John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

Earl Forstall remembers another time a plane came back with a lot of hits. The right wing had taken a direct hit. He...

Henry Burkle went to the ballistic missile command in California, and then he did top secret contract work. He wanted...

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