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With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...

Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...

Charles Childs feels that if we had not had a nuclear weapon, we would be speaking Japanese. During the Berlin Airlift...

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

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

Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...

Jack Rolfson would get leave to London [Annotator's Note: London, England] every now and then. On specific missions to...

Homer Cole was born in September 1925 in Jasper, Missouri. He had three brothers and two sisters. His father moved his...

Olen Grant left the service when his operations had been completed. The army tried to get him stay in the service after...

Homer Cole flew 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Cole served in the US Army Air Forces as a tail gunner aboard...

Olen Grant believes that having institutions like The National WWII Museum and continuing to teach WWII to future...

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