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Chester Brewer was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania in 1922. When the Great Depression struck, his parents lost their...

On 25 March 1938, the Greek freighter Steve Pisanos got a job aboard steamed to Oran, Algeria, in North Africa. He...

John Noack was visited again by the interrogator on the third day. Noack held fast and the interrogator did not ask...

Leon Hirsch enlisted in the Army Air Forces before high school graduation. He was inducted into service in August 1945...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

A boyhood friend who was to meet James Pritchett for his graduation crashed and burned while giving night flying...

The first plane Dr. Roscoe Brown shot down was a Me-262 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-262 jet fighter...

[Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote’s daughter steps in and asks a few questions.] The government had prohibited the...

Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: a radio operator in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th...

Virgil Faust was born in 1921 in Windber, Pennsylvania. His father was a carpenter by trade, and maintained housing for...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

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