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William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...

The first time Malcolm Higgins saw a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] he wondered how...

Enrique Cervantes flew two additional missions in Europe after the German fighter crashed into his B-17 [Annotator's...

The Russians [Annotator's Note: who liberated Baynham and others at Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp] had a tank with...

John Arch McGill traveled in a boxcar across the top of North Africa to Bizerte [Annotator's Note: Bizerte, Tunisia]....

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

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

Kenneth Beckman's first mission [Annotator's Note: Beckman was a navigator in the 366th Bombardment Squadron, 305th...

John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...

Richard Asbury does not know how he came up with the name "Queenie" [Annotator's Note: North American P-51B Mustang...

Early on, William Patrick Bonelli had to teach the pilot about flying, which he believes lead to him not being asked to...

[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] When Edwin “Pete” Goldberg returned...

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