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Richard Asbury does not know how he came up with the name "Queenie" [Annotator's Note: North American P-51B Mustang...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

John Arthur Stege briefly used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note:...

A mission over the road leading out of Remagen [Annotator's Note: Remagen, Germany] proved problematic for Robert...

James Eyre Wainwright was sent to Lincoln, Nebraska to assign crews. After assignment, he went to Rapids City [...

James Siracuse could hear the ammunition train he bombed exploding in the distance. Every time there was an explosion...

After gunnery school, Paul Lefever underwent training at Buckley Field, Colorado for pursuit armors training and had...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

Frank Buschmeier went to armament school in Denver, Colorado. In Denver, the men were split into training groups for...

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

In his discussion of his first tour of duty, Kenneth Beckman shares an anecdote about his 25th mission. [Annotator's...

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