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Recalling some of his more interesting operational experiences, Donald Strait talked about one when he was escorting B-...

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

Richard "Dick" Schneider's first combat mission to bomb Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin, Germany] was not a lot of fun...

Jack Sinise arrived in England in January 1944 [Annotator's Note: and joined the 379th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Isham Davis [Annotator’s Note: serving...

Richard Candelaria went down the hill to a couple of cabins. He did not see anyone near the first one. When he went to...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was assigned to the 561st Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force as a...

Robert Shoens notes that they used to argue about certain things at their reunions. There were other missions when...

As a "bomb-igator", Armiger Jagoe was busy every second of a flight and thought it was a fantastic position. He was...

Robert Harris flew his first combat mission over France on D-Day. [Annotator’s Note: D-Day was on 6 June 1944 when...

For Ryan O'Brien, going into combat was like going to play a football game. The flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft...

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

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