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Paul Lefever said he was not mistreated by his German captors, but was taken into town and left in a dark loft without...

Replacement pilots were in high demand in Europe so Joseph Pilcher was sent to Rennes, France for assignment to a...

Donald Albert Carlson did a lot of training and was assigned an airplane and a crew [Annotator's Note: in preparation...

They were released [Annotator's Note: from the Army Air Forces]. As soon as that happened, James Siracuse phoned his...

Donald E. Casey [Annotator’s Note: whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber was shot down over Hamburg, Germany...

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

Herman Molen remembers when they found out they were free. [Annotator’s Note: Molen and others were liberated from a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says that Edward Nickerson was on the O-Nine Six, Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo...

In late May 1945, Gerald Auerbach's crew was chosen to become the lead crew in the squadron [Annotator's Note: 881st...

Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Harris appreciated being an American much more after his experiences in the Second World War. He had thought...

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