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Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...

Henry Burkle was in service at Chanute Field, Illinois when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Olen Grant got restless and tired of going to town to get drunk all the time, so he asked a few of his buddies how they...

John Sacks was in a camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] with four compounds that housed about 9,...

Alfred Pierse Murphy would be briefed on missions [Annotator's Note: the missions he flew with the 322nd Bombardment...

Clayton Kelly Gross recalled the date he shot the jet down was in April of 1945. The last month of the war they could...

After Carrol Joy arrived in England, he was sent by train to Ashford Kent. They may have been the closest base to the...

The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany. Once a prisoner of war, he was...

Following completion of gunnery training, Robert W. Paschal was sent to MacDill Field, Florida for advanced training....

[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was captured and taken to Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, along with his copilot...

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