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[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After receiving his commission as a second...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

[Annotator's Note: Lloyd Burns was a prisoner of war in Oflag XIII-B in Hammelburg, Germany.] One afternoon, Lloyd...

When Melbourne Sanford Courtney 's company [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th...

John J. Connelly was captured by Germans when he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to Stalag Luft IV [...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

Munich was defended with 105 millimeter guns which were different than the 88 millimeter guns they were used to. They...

Henry Heim remembers flying from North Africa into Italy was more difficult. He thinks that might be because he did not...

Glen Jostad was moved to Stalag XIII near Nuremburg. The Royal Air Force and the 8th Air Force provided a morale boost...

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

Defying orders, Francis Neilson took pictures and kept a journal of his flights, and later put together a book that,...

Rankin had made "Ace in a Day." [Annotator's Note: a term used to describe a fighter pilot scoring five or more...

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