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Edward Nacey flew a lot of missions to bomb bridges, railroad yards, and marshaling yards. Most of his missions were...

The exact date that Irving Baum got to England [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron,...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Jack Buckner and his crew moved from Constantine [Annotator's Note: Constantine, Algeria] to around Tunis [Annotator's...

Harley Bridger was a radio operator. He learned to use a lead ball to help with his radio transmitter. The B-24 [...

William Morris Paulk did not talk about his World War 2 service when he returned home. It was years before he related...

John Luckadoo, known as Lucky, was born in March 1922 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up in Chattanooga. It was a...

Loevsky's motivation for joining the service was that he felt that the treatment of the Jews in Europe, and by Hitler...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] By October 1943, Edwin B....

William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army Air Forces] went overseas in October 1943 on the Argentina...

James McDermott would get barley soup once in a while from the Germans [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in...

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