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Ryan O'Brien was born in March 1922 in Los Angeles, California. The Great Depression started when he was seven. His dad...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells John T. "Jack" Race he has seen a photograph of Race's aircraft with bullet...

Gatewood's area was comprised of American POWs. They maintained their ranks and their discipline. Gatewood remembers a...

Gilbert Shawn was not shipped to basic training. Instead, he went to an air field in Kentucky as a cadet. Shawn took a...

John Gibbons has no regrets from his service during the war. He had a very successful career during which he held very...

The worst part of the mission to Bremen for George Roberts was the fighters. Roberts operated his gun from the radio...

John Noack went on to fly on 1 December to fly his 13th mission. It also happened to be Noack’s 24th birthday. He came...

On one mission, Bernard Smith's aircraft was taking off and the left wing began to dip. He got frightened and they hit...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout this clip as he had a stroke and has trouble remembering...

Virgil Clayton Moen returned to the United States on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period...

Archie Maltbie flew one of his last missions of the war against a very large German ammunition dump. There was a huge...

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