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The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...

Antonio C. Rodriquez reported to Fort Sam [Annotator's Note: Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas in September 1943...

John Arthur Stege flew across the Atlantic to England then on to Gibraltar and to North Africa [Annotator's Note: as a...

John Noack called the base and they sent some trucks in to pick them up. They were in a new base which was a mudhole....

Alfred Pierse Murphy would be briefed on missions [Annotator's Note: the missions he flew with the 322nd Bombardment...

The barracks were isolated from each other and separated by fences. Adjacent to Grant’s barracks were barracks from...

After Carrol Joy arrived in England, he was sent by train to Ashford Kent. They may have been the closest base to the...

Replacement pilots were in high demand in Europe so Joseph Pilcher was sent to Rennes, France for assignment to a...

On 20 October 1942, Robert "Bob" Rickel began his military experience at Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: in Trenton, New...

Before bailing out of his stricken airplane [Annotator's Note: near Brunet, France], Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a...

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC radio at the POW camp, but had no idea about the landings in Southern France....

The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

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