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John Gibbons met his future wife in Kansas before deploying overseas. Gibbons acted as the copilot for the flight...

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...

Donald E. Casey graduated from navigator school and earned the rank of second lieutenant. He was ordered to report to...

Ben Epstein was born in April 1921 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of four sons of Russian immigrants. His father...

Bernard Knese found out he was going into the Army Air Force when he went to basic training. Basic training lasted two...

When Richard Candelaria returned to base he did rolls to signify his victories. The crew chiefs could tell that the...

Stanley Berman [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force in England] trained on a Stearman PT-17 [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] Joseph Fulton Jr. continued training in P-40s [...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

Herman Molen spent time in the VA [Annotator's Note: United States Department of Veterans Affairs] hospital in Houston...

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