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Robert "Bob" Rickel was born in Toledo, Ohio in July 1923. Rickel's father came to the United States from Poland....

The war in Germany ended and Robert W. McDonald's operation [Annotator's Note: in the 8th Air Force] was transferred to...

Robert Shoens' squadron had about four to six planes available. When they went back to Berlin on the eighth [Annotators...

Carrol Joy moved from England to France in July [Annotator’s Note: July 1944]. Afterward, his squadron would be in...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Germany on 26...

Carrol Joy and two of his buddies took most of their equipment with them and loaded up their carbines to head to...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright was interrogated in Frankfurt, Germany after being shot down in late November 1943...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Ardell Bollinger had a couple of missions near Paris and Hamburg going after submarines. The cities had a large amount...

Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note:...

Being off of oxygen, you go into hypoxia after three minutes. Joseph O'Donnell pulled his ripcord right away and went...

After he left the military, Edward Grant did not use the G.I. Bill because he was married with a child. School did not...

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