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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Gale Ammerman to describe 17 September 1944, the start of Operation Market...

Louis Cardenas remembers they slept on boards. They had sacks and they put hay in them. They were not suffering. They...

Rankin had made "Ace in a Day." [Annotator's Note: a term used to describe a fighter pilot scoring five or more...

John T. "Jack" Race was flying very important people around in a regular line C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47...

James "Jim" L. Brooks finds it very difficult to describe aerial combat because so many things are happening is such a...

McKee relates the story of how his new crew lost their original Navigator and Bombardier when they bailed out of their...

James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...

Eugene W. Chambers enlisted in the Air Force and was called up on 27 January 1943. He took a train to Cincinnati [...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to Visalia, California for primary flight school. They flew PT-22 low-wing planes [Annotator’s...

Richard Klenoski was at a rest home [Annotator's Note: a flak house; a designated rest home for American airmen who...

After receiving his commission, Edward Grant worked in Florida as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

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