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Frank Ramsey wanted to be in the Army Air Corps. His uncle had served in the First World War [Annotator's Note: World...

The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...

Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

Ernest L. Poulson was born in Ephraim, Utah in March 1921. He lived a very rural life growing up. He did a lot of...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Consolidated B-24 Liberator...

Arnol Sellars went overseas to Italy to join a fighter squadron. When he got there, he had a lot more time on the P-47...

Robert Wolff was sent to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Frankfurt, Germany]. Wolff had been promoted to first lieutenant...

Lloyd Burns had to bail out of his plane. When he jumped out, he blacked out right after he pulled his ripcord. His...

Robert Bueker [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] and the men in the camp...

Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

Frank Bostwick flew 35 missions over Europe. His whole crew stayed together and relatively uninjured during those...

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