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Hewitt Brian Gomez returned home mid July 1945 for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, stationed in England] flew...

Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

Donald Bryan took off on 140 missions but only completed 138 of them. The bombers aborted on two of them because of...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was captured as a prisoner when his plane was shot down by Germans. Perdue was led to a local...

Harold Shook flew on the first 50 missions of his squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter...

Robert "Bob" Rickel fought in World War 2 to defend the United States. He fought because all his other friends fought...

Wendell Galbraith landed in a yard that was like an apple orchard [Annotator's Note: after being shot down on 22 March...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. was a detachment commander stationed 100 miles above the Arctic Circle in the late 1950s...

While Olen Grant was at Stalag XVIIB he preferred to stay in the barracks [Annotator’s Note: as opposed to staying in...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

Walter Douglas took advantage of the G.I. Bill to go to instrument flying school in Virginia and used it to purchase a...

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