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Eben Smith was born in August 1923 in Pasadena, California. He remembers his childhood as being unremarkable; his...

John T. "Jack" Race was already flying for the British High Command [Annotator's Note: British 21st Army Group]....

When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...

Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

Gale Ammerman needed his weapons in the Varsity landing [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel,...

Richard "Dick" Schneider was born in Akron, Ohio in March 1923. His family included his parents, one sister, and one...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. was assigned to the 467th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 467th Bombardment Group], 8th Air...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew had been to Berlin. It was high time to have an easy mission. The guys were told it was...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman bailed out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Vienna, Austria on 13...

Louis Cardenas had to bail out of the plane. [Annotator’s Note: Cardenas is referring to his plane getting shot down in...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...

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