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Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

The weather in Europe during December 1944 was bad, according to James Pritchett's account, and the air space around...

Samuel W. Smith got the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] up to top speed and buzzed...

There was a chaplain in the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag XVII-B] who went around in an effort to keep up the morale...

[Annotator's Note: John Paul served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Chester Strunk and his fellow crewmen were approached by locals on horseback immediately following their parachute...

Harold Shook flew on the first 50 missions of his squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter...

Robert Wolff remembers that there were escape attempts all the time. They had to get permission from the “escape...

Kenneth R. Williams’ [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

Francis Dymnicki boarded a ship in England right after V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] to...

Lloyd Geist was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in July 1921. His family moved to Houma...

[Annotator's Note: It is very difficult to understand Carleton Cleveland due to sound issues throughout this clip.]...

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