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In the Fall of 1944, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne was stationed at Royal Air Force Station Great Dunmow, or RAF Great Dunmow, Little...

DeQuindre McGlaun passed the military physical exam and then was sent to Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning,...

John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...

Elmore Ruck had a brother who was a flyer in the war. Ruck was promoted to first lieutenant and his brother in the Air...

Ernest L. Poulson was sent to Hill Field [Annotator's Note: now Hill Air Force Base, Utah] as the assistant operations...

Thomas Creekmore was born in 1923 [Annotator's Note: December 1923] in Portsmouth, Virginia and grew up during the...

Joseph Geary's baptism by fire was by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. He realized that the bursts...

The mission for which Henry Sherman Fouts was awarded the DFC [Annotator's Note: the Distinguished Flying Cross, or DFC...

[Annotator's Note: Lloyd Burns was a prisoner of war in Oflag XIII-B in Hammelburg, Germany and escaped during the...

Gatewood did not disclose his experiences with his family. He kept up correspondence with his bombardier and navigator...

Wendell Galbraith has never told a story about the time he learned what it was like to go down in a plane while not...

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