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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...

Hewitt Brian Gomez was a navigator training with his crew at Chatham Field [Annotator's Note: Chatham, Georgia]. He...

When the draft began in 1942, everyone from the ages 17 and a half to 35 years old had to sign up. Roberto "Bob” Ruiz...

McKee relates the story of how his new crew lost their original Navigator and Bombardier when they bailed out of their...

Paul Lefever said he was not mistreated by his German captors, but was taken into town and left in a dark loft without...

[Annotator's Note: This interview clip begins with Victor Fienup in conversation with the interviewer regarding the...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany after he bailed out of his plane [...

Joseph Pilcher said that when the war ended in Europe, it seemed like every aircraft in the 9th Air Force went airborne...

Leon Hirsch was born in July 1927 in the Bronx in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had one...

Wendell Galbraith and his unit [Annotator's Note: 782nd Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]...

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown was born in Washington D.C. and lived there for the first 17 years of his life. Washington D.C. was...

Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

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