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Robert Liles made captain in 1942. In 1943 he was given command of the 16th Fighter Squadron. Before taking over the...

Chris Daley was born in October 1923 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He grew up in a small town. His father owned a wholesale...

When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

Charles Poston [Annotator's Note: a US Army Air Corps pilot with the 1st Air Commando Group based in Asansol, India]...

Herbert Gross had trained on B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bombers. His new...

After one mission, Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th...

Perry Garten flew a security mission with a colonel that ended up in China. It was an unexpected experience for Garten...

[Annotator's Note: Newton Dana was born in 1924 in Trenton, New Jersey.] Newton Dana grew up with a large extended...

John Alison was at one of the RAF [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force] bases when he got orders to report to London....

Herbert Saylor was drafted shortly after graduating from high school. His father and sister brought Saylor to the train...

At Morrison Army Airfield in Florida, Richard Notebaert's old crew broken up, and he was assigned to another crew that...

Wesley Fronk had one sister and grew up in a lot of different places. He never had any problems making friends. Moving...

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