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Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...

An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

The 506th Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force] was called...

Colin Joseph Mayne was born in March 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana], where he also grew...

James "Jim" L. Brooks [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot] was assigned to the Panama Canal Zone. He was part of a...

Steve Pisanos was on the first Schweinfurt mission during which 60 B-17s were lost. The bombers were escorted by the...

John Howland was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1920. He can trace his ancestry back to the days of the Pilgrims. After...

John Angier was taken to Stalag Luft III-A [Annotator's Note: in Sagan, Poland] after being captured near Cologne,...

Chester Brewer saw his first person bail out on his first mission. The plane alongside of them was on fire. They had a...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

On the morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941, Maurice Hackler and a friend were driving to a wildlife area to go rabbit...

The only time Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr.'s base was attacked was when a group of German fighters followed Holmes' bomb...

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