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Samuel W. Smith remembers they were attached to the Army. It was the Army Air Corps. In 1949, they started the Air...

Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: the 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional...

The housing at Henry Sherman Fouts' base was very primitive. He slept on a canvas cot and had only a couple of blankets...

Henry Heim was born in April 1921 in Trevorton, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and two sisters. He was the oldest...

Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior [Annotator's Note: a pilot with the 509th Bombardment Squadron, 351st Bombardment Group...

In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was captured by Germans after he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew dropped food...

Oscar Johnson went to Kingman, Arizona for gunnery school and then to Lincoln, Nebraska to assemble the crew. From...

John Arch McGill says the war was a terrible waste, in terms of loss of human life, of destruction to communities, and...

Although Francis Neilson was a war veteran, he was not yet 21 when he got out of the armed services, and couldn’t get a...

By the early days of May [Annotator’s Note: May 1945], Clyde East and most Americans knew the war was over. The Allied...

After being badly wounded and captured by the Germans, Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the...

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