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Homer Cole was born in September 1925 in Jasper, Missouri. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father moved his...

John Luckadoo and the other aircrews began receiving heavy fire as soon as they reached the enemy coast. The flak was...

Replacement pilots were in high demand in Europe so Joseph Pilcher was sent to Rennes, France for assignment to a...

The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip. The interviewer asks Jack Sinise where he was when...

Rackley was sent to Kearney, Nebraska for reassignment where he was given the keys to a brand new B-17 [Annotators...

On Martin Richard's last mission, the British were pinned down on the beachhead around Caen [Annotator's Note: Caen,...

After war in Europe ended, Roland Dullnig had to wait until he earned enough points to return home [Annotator's Note: a...

Joseph Armanini describes explaining why he missed the target from the previous mission to Colonel Harding [Annotators...

Robert "Bob" Rickel had to kick a bomb out of the bomb bay from a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Rankin did not shoot down Gunther Rall [Annotator's Note: Luftwaffe/West German Air Force Ace Lt. Gen. Gunther Rall]...

There was a lot of "oohs and ahhs" at the mission briefing [Annotator's Note: for Victor Fienup's 17 August 1943...

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