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Norman Cook finished his third phase of training in the Army Air Corps and was sent to Mitchell, South Dakota. He was...

John Noack notes that everything was fine that day. They had escort until they had to turn back. The fighters reached...

Harley Bridger's crew was sent to Mitchell Field on Long Island, New York. They were assigned a new airplane and they...

One day Olen Grant was working on an airplane when a private notified him that someone was waiting to see him in the...

Joel Urice was a leading NCO [Annotator's Note: noncommissioned officer] on the troop carrier. It took 13 days to get...

Lloyd Reese had been a prisoner-of-war after his Consolidated B-24 Liberator had been shot down over Ploesti, Romania....

An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

Clayton Kelly Gross recalls getting to England and the bombing going on from there. They were assigned to the 9th Air...

In January [Annotator's Note: January 1943], Myron L. Guisewhite was in preflight training. By Christmas [Annotator's...

Lysander "Ben" Neighbors was born in February 1922 in Avinger, Texas and grew up in different locations. They moved to...

Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

The twenty-first and the twenty-second missions stick out in James Siracuse's mind. On the twenty-first mission,...

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