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Frank Buschmeier and his crew had another pilot for a few missions because the pilot was on leave. Fitzroy [Annotator's...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was liberated on 29 April [Annotator's Note: 29 April 1945]. A pitched battle was fought...

John Keema and a lot of the guys he flew with had qualms about the Münster raid. Unfortunately he did not have anyone...

After D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Bernard Knese had a 30-...

It couldn't have been long afterward, any longer and he would have died of hypothermia, that Ben Epstein reached one of...

Donald E. Casey served as a navigator for the 379th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force in Kimbolton, England flying B-17s...

Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...

John Stanley Lee Swarts' most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his crew did not return from a mission. He...

Lowell Brueland flew missions on 6 June [Annotator’s Note: 6 June 1944] in Normandy. The first mission was to...

Lloyd Reese was asleep, and his father woke him to tell him about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He knew that we were in...

Edgar A. Grabhorn's first ten missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator with the 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th...

William White Brainard was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1922. He grew up with one brother and two sisters. His...

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