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Jerome "Jerry" Riga's most vivid memory was his last flight over Bastogne [Annotator's Note: Bastogne, Belgium]. The...

John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

In late October 1944, Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. was sent to Naples, Italy by ship. The voyage took almost two weeks....

The sole duty of Clyde East and his squadron during the Battle of the Bulge was to perform reconnaissance flights in...

For James "Jim" L. Brooks' [Annotator's Note: a pilot with 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force]...

Daniel Samuelson enlisted in the Army Air Corps and went to Texas for basic training. In high school, he did alright...

William McCowen was assigned to a P-61 Black Widow [Annotator's Note: Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter aircraft...

William Albright enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to fly, even though he had never flown before. He had...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

McKee slept in the Frenchman's hayloft over night and suffered from his wounded back [Annotators Note: after bailing...

In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

Eugene Henry Gierka was born in August 1924 in Albany, New York. His parents came from Poland. His father ran a butcher...

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