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Before the war, Edgar A. Grabhorn had gone to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana] to...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey joined the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California in 1943.] He was so excited....

Charles Childs was lucky to graduate [Annotator's Note: in 1938]. He had some friends going to college and they needed...

The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

It was normal to lose two or three airplanes on any mission over a good target like Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna,...

Malcolm Higgins never saw the morale down within the ranks of the 8th Air Force. To him, morale was fine. Base activity...

Lloyd Reese had been a prisoner-of-war after his Consolidated B-24 Liberator had been shot down over Ploesti, Romania....

The most memorable experience of the war for Omer Van Huylenbrouck is his first mission to Berlin [Annotator's Note:...

Vincent Losada was commissioned as a flight officer after he received all his training. He was sent to Drew Air Force...

After World War 2, Robert "Bob" Livingston, moved to New York near his sister. He eventually moved into an apartment...

Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

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