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Leon Hirsch saw his service as a great learning experience. He was given responsibilities greater than any he had...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

He has no memory of VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], but Harold Shook remembered that on...

When Steve Pisanos was in Vietnam he was to drop weapons and food to a convoy that was lost in the jungle. He got close...

John Sacks' first mission was to Bremen, Germany to hit an oil refinery in that city. When they got over the target the...

Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Chester Brewer how he found out about his crew being shot down during a mission...

As they traveled through Germany [Annotator's Note: during his time spent as a prisoner of war (POW), Onesi remembers...

For bombardier training, Maurice Hackler went to Deming, New Mexico. He worked with the Norden bombsight over the...

[Annotator’s Note: The interview begins with John Keema telling the interviewer about how not flying the Regensburg...

more missions after D-Day and then returned to the United States. He was in Milwaukie on V-E Day and in Louisiana when...

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