Search results

Map is loading...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...

Walter Bala completed 35 missions before he returned home. He had one mission where he thought for sure he was going to...

Russell Engel was born in Vesta, Minnesota, the son of a farmer who left the farm to work in oil refineries in Caspar,...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga assisted with ground support for the infantry and tank divisions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P...

Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

Maurice Hackler eventually made it home to marry on 14 July 1945 and was later discharged from the Army Air Forces on...

During Operation Varsity [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel, Germany], the glider pilots of one...

Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...

Roland M. Lee was born in Punta Gorda, Florida where he grew up and attended high school. The town population was only...

James Elduff [Annotator’s Note: when asked about landing his damaged Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber while...

Oral History