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John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

William Albright enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to fly, even though he had never flown before. He had...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was assigned to the 467th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 467th Bombardment Group], 8th Air...

Paul Roach did five combat missions. They did a lot of resupplying. They were hauling gas in when Patton [Annotator's...

Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...

Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

Leahr believes that young people should be taught about what men like him went through. The racism and segregation he...

Robert W. McDonald went to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey] for...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

After World War 2 and the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953], William McCowen served in the Vietnam War. He...

Erico J. Catalano was sent to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for training. The new recruits were immediately put on guard duty...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

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