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John Gibbons is a big believer in the Boeing B-17. He saw a lot of planes that were damaged. Gibbons flew a plane named...

Stanley Berman [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force in England] trained on a Stearman PT-17 [Annotator's Note:...

While he was training with his ten man crew in Florida, Jesse Wofford's mother visited him and treated the whole crew...

Marvin Raymond Edwards was transferred into the European Air Transport Service around August 1945. Before that, he did...

Frank Bostwick flew 35 missions over Europe. His whole crew stayed together and relatively uninjured during those...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

Bernard Baker went to Anzio [Annotator's Note: Anzio, Italy] and remained there for about three weeks. It was a...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...

Jack Buckner was in Boise, Idaho when his aircrew was formed as part of the 347th Bombardment Squadron, 99th...

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

William White Brainard served as a radioman on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] for...

Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...

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