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Air-to-air [Annotator's Note: air-to-air combat] was Harold Shook's thing; he loved to dogfight and volunteered for...

Dr. Jesse L. Wofford was born in the small, working community of Drew, Mississippi, where his family was in the farming...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was liberated on 29 April [Annotator's Note: 29 April 1945]. A pitched battle was fought...

Chester Brewer went by train to Deopham Green, which was near his airbase [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Deopham...

John Stanley Lee Swarts' most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his crew did not return from a mission. He...

John Angier says that once the planes were settled on the bomb run, they could not change positions and the enemy knew...

In January 1945, Walter Douglas flew his last mission which was to Paderborn [Annotator's Note: Paderborn, Germany],...

Bernard Baker went to Fort Lewis, Washington [Annotator’s Note: near Lakewood, Washington], for overseas training. He...

Clyde East was in Japan flying missions over Korea three or four weeks after the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. He...

From Germany, James Pritchett was flown to, and treated at, a general hospital in Herefordshire, England. After about a...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey joined the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California in 1943.] He was so excited....

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