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Philip Whitman flew a mission to Blechhammer, Germany and they hit bad weather. They got into the clear and a pilot...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Ryan O'Brien and a friend went to watch the LA Bulldogs [Annotator's Note: Los Angeles Bulldogs] playing against the...

Robert Whitcomb was put in a compound with Polish prisoners who had been there for six years [Annotator's Note: at...

After leaving the service, Carl Koone went home to visit his family, and "fiddled around on the farm" with his father....

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

In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...

George Beaugh recalled that his crew took the Northern route to England. Since the weather was so bad, they had to stop...

William Albright was a ball turret gunner [Annotator's Note: on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber number 42-...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...

After William White Brainard returned home and was discharged from the Air Force in San Antonio [Annotator’s Note: San...

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