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Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Gilbert S. Shawn flew with Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note: later US Air Force Brigadier General James "Jimmy" Stewart...

While hiding out in Paris Steve Pisanos was picked up by a resistance operative who took him to church. When they got...

Archie Maltbie and his outfit [Annotator's Note: the 388th Fighter Squadron, 365th Fighter Group] began flying missions...

Henry Burkle remembers that they were kept heavily guarded because the squadron could not operate without the permanent...

The English were incredibly grateful for the American presence. Robert Shoens and his crew stuck together when they got...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

John Keema and his group arrived in Framlingham in mid-July around the time of the Hamburg raids. Keema got to go into...

Norman Cook finished his third phase of training in the Army Air Corps and was sent to Mitchell, South Dakota. He was...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne was trained as bombardier-navigator on the Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. His crew...

In 1944, they came out with water injection which added 200 horsepower. Bryan’s planes did not have it and he was a...

Erico J. Catalano's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was assigned to the machine shop. He served...

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