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In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...

Frank Curtis McBride was limited in his service [Annotator’s Note: as a result of scar tissue on his lung due to...

Paul Roach was a city engineer. He was in the reserves for two weeks in the summer. He was taking classes in command...

As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...

Olen Grant was living in a hotel in Austin, Texas when he got a call from Jim Armstrong. It was the first time Grant...

The missions William Howard flew on D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Frank A. Wiswall was a bombardier in the 8th Air Force. His worst missions were to Bremen, Germany, dropping bombs on...

James McDermott was in Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany] when it was liberated on 29 April...

Clarence Anderson describes how the P-51 Mustang [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] came...

Rackley was sent to Kearney, Nebraska for reassignment where he was given the keys to a brand new B-17 [Annotators...

The most memorable experience of the war for Omer Van Huylenbrouck is his first mission to Berlin [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Childs feels that if we had not had a nuclear weapon, we would be speaking Japanese. During the Berlin Airlift...

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