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[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was a navigator on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber that was heavily damaged...

Shortly after the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944...

Homer Cole parlayed his skill at bowling alley management plus his people skills to begin a political career in 1985 as...

Grant was in town the night before the Stuttgart mission. He had waited around until about 8:00 o'clock before taking...

Archie Maltbie’s first mission from England was against a French railroad bridge. Several pilots missed the bridge but...

Deep penetration raids were the most dangerous, according to Paul Lefever, and he was shot down during an attack on a...

Hewitt Brian Gomez was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 1925. He recalled that he was playing football at a...

On the day Joseph Pilcher shot down an Fw-190 [Annotator’s Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], he was...

Victor Fienup does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th...

Clarence Anderson felt for his wife having to see her husband and son both going off to war during the Vietnam War....

Herbert Heilbrun wore long johns under woolen pants with a warm shirt under a Mae West [Annotator's Note: inflatable...

In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...

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