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Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

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

Eugene Henry Gierka arrived in Le Havre [Annotator's Note: Le Havre, France] and went to Rouen [Annotator's Note: Rouen...

William McCowen's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a nearby town in Italy captured Mussolini [...

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

Eugene W. Chambers found it easy to readjust to civilian life [Annotator's Note: after serving with the Army Air Forces...

Edward Grant flew two liberation missions in Hungary. People were being forced to work in ammunition factories making...

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

The war matured Robert Whitcomb. Before he was drafted he was determined to become a musician. After the war, he used...

Lloyd Burns enjoyed his time at Barksdale [Annotator's Note: Barksdale Field, now Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport...

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

Donald Strait was born in April 1918 in East Orange, New Jersey, and spent his first five years in Montclair, New...

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