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Henry Lederer knew from his training in the P-47 [Annotator's Note: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft] that he...

Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)]...

William Albright was a ball turret gunner [Annotator's Note: on Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber number 42-...

William L. Snow was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924, the middle child of three boys born to a father who owned a...

Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...

Lloyd Reese was asleep, and his father woke him to tell him about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He knew that we were in...

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...

Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...

George Grugett was born in McConnell, Tennessee which no longer exists. His father worked for the railroad. He moved...

While at McConnell Airbase, Enrique Cervantes had his PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange] operation audited by a...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Upon arriving in England in...

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....

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