Search results

Map is loading...

Robert Harris was based in England for one year at a base called Barkston Heath near Grantham. [Annotator’s Note: the...

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

Edgar A. Grabhorn's first ten missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator with the 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th...

John Noack notes that everything was fine that day. They had escort until they had to turn back. The fighters reached...

When Carl Koone's bomb group [Annotator's Note: 99th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] moved to Italy, they were once...

Francis Dolsen is listening to another veteran speak. [Annotator’s Note: Another veteran and the interviewer are...

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

An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

McKee relates the story of how his new crew lost their original Navigator and Bombardier when they bailed out of their...

Donald E. Casey [Annotator’s Note: whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber was shot down over Hamburg, Germany...

In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown was born in Washington D.C. and lived there for the first 17 years of his life. Washington D.C. was...

Oral History