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Ralph Boyer was on the SS Argentina with his crew heading to Europe. He slept with 15 other men in a stateroom. The...

John Gibbons is a big believer in the Boeing B-17. He saw a lot of planes that were damaged. Gibbons flew a plane named...

There were four phases to Victor Fienup's flight training. Preflight was ground school for two months, primary was half...

As they traveled through Germany [Annotator's Note: during his time spent as a prisoner of war (POW), Onesi remembers...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Walter Douglas was on a bombardment mission near Berlin, Germany. After he dropped his bombs, he lost one of his...

A boyhood friend who was to meet James Pritchett for his graduation crashed and burned while giving night flying...

Myron L. Guisewhite was sent back to Europe with the occupation Army. Assigned to France, he became involved with the...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz was sent overseas on a ship in a convoy from New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. The...

Kenneth Beckman's first mission [Annotator's Note: Beckman was a navigator in the 366th Bombardment Squadron, 305th...

Vincent Pale would not do anything different if he had to do it all over again. After the war, Germany became America's...

Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...

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