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Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. experienced enemy fire returning from a bombing mission to Hamm, Germany on 22 April 1944....

Willard Haul "Jack" Coop's most memorable experience of World War 2 was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day...

Norris Morvant served in France [Annotator’s Note: with the 89th Station Complement Squadron] delivering supplies along...

Russell Engel was born in Vesta, Minnesota, the son of a farmer who left the farm to work in oil refineries in Caspar,...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

Perry Kerr was deployed to England in February 1945. They were constantly flying training missions before they started...

During Operation Varsity [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel, Germany], the glider pilots of one...

Frank Buschmeier feels like he owes his life to the men who flew the plane and he owes his life to the durability of...

John Luckadoo does not believe that long range fighter protection was possible in the early stages of the war. They...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] did not...

Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...

Cary Salter flew 10 missions in early January and February [Annotator’s Note: presumably of 1944]. Many of the missions...

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