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

Paul James Grubb became a better person through his wartime experiences. He was glad to be alive because there was good...

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

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...

Vincent Losada was commissioned as a flight officer after he received all his training. He was sent to Drew Air Force...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

After the war the US Army Air Forces suspected that John Luckadoo was suffering from PTSD. When he had returned from...

Joel Urice was assigned to the 100th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

Martin Richard's first mission [Annotator's Note: from Cheddington, England] was 6 June 1944, D-Day [Annotator's Note:...

When Donald Bryan was going to junior college the US was paying for pilot training [Annotator’s Note: the Civilian...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Doolan to describe how a bombing mission would go.] They would be...

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