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Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Herman Molen was born in August 1923 in Greenville, Texas. He was studying to be a minister. He was ordained. When the...

Ardell Bollinger arrived in Europe in July 1943. He was shot down 23 September 1944. Bollinger’s first mission was a “...

Instead of taking Victor Fienup [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group,...

Wendell Galbraith never used the voice radio. Voice radio was bomber to bomber. There was a 522 set which was bomber to...

John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

On one raid, Bernard Smith remembers a plane behind them burst into flames. His first reaction was that it was pretty....

Asked if he had any problems with post traumatic stress disorder, he said he had some problems with loud, sudden noises...

DeQuindre McGlaun passed the military physical exam and then was sent to Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning,...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

William Albright was liberated in May 1945. He never knew what was going to happen from one day to the next and that...

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