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Clayton Kelly Gross should have been on the first combat mission, but when it happened he was in the hospital with a...

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

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

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

Leon Hirsch saw his service as a great learning experience. He was given responsibilities greater than any he had...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Richard Tangradi thought about getting married to an English girl. He remembers some things like it just happened. He...

Wendell Galbraith never used the voice radio. Voice radio was bomber to bomber. There was a 522 set which was bomber to...

He has no memory of VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], but Harold Shook remembered that on...

A month before Virgil Faust was liberated, the prisoners in the camp began hearing the artillery getting closer. Rumors...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

John Sacks' first mission was to Bremen, Germany to hit an oil refinery in that city. When they got over the target the...

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