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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...

After returning to the United States, Edward Grant remained in the military for some time as an instructor. He was...

Erico J. Catalano witnessed several plane crashes in mid-air or as they tried to land. There were close calls where the...

In the Fall of 1944, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter...

Recalling some of his more interesting operational experiences, Donald Strait talked about one when he was escorting B-...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

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

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

Joseph Geary's baptism by fire was by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. He realized that the bursts...

The mission for which Henry Sherman Fouts was awarded the DFC [Annotator's Note: the Distinguished Flying Cross, or DFC...

Robert Haffner went to Georgia to meet with a girl, Ruby, who he had met before he went overseas. He proposed to her...

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