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Jerome "Jerry" Riga graduated from high school and went to work soon afterwards. It was not long before the draft came...

Paul Hissey was a replacement pilot for the squadron [Annotator's Note: 429th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group,...

[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was badly burned after being shot down over France. Locals had taken him into a house to...

On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

Wayne O. Hill thought it was his patriotic duty to go to war. He had to join the Army because of his eyesight. He...

After World War 2, Willard Haul Coop re-enlisted and went to Korea for one year during the Korean War [Annotator's Note...

Clarene Anderson thought the P-39 was a cool airplane. With the engine mounted in the center of the plane there was...

Jerome Harold Black got lucky and got called in by the Commanding General of Allied Force Headquarters [Annotator's...

Francis Neilson recalled one mission when one of their engines had gone out over the Adriatic Sea. When the second...

John Arch McGill was stationed in Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy]. His outfit [Annotator's Note: 34th Air...

Ben Epstein was born in April 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of four sons of Russian immigrants. His father...

Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

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