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[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as a pilot flying Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers in the 669th...

After surviving ditching [Annotator's Note: in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber], Edward Field returned to his...

The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...

Joel Urice flew his seventh mission in Germany below Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany]. They experienced a lot...

Walter Rozett was sent to basic training in Atlantic City, New Jersey and lived in a hotel for three months. Whenever...

John Arthur Stege and 14 other pilots were sent home [Annotator's Note: he was a veteran combat pilot with the 48th...

Robert Harris flew his first combat mission over France on D-Day. [Annotator’s Note: D-Day was on 6 June 1944 when...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Doolan to describe how a bombing mission would go.] They would be...

There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

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

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

While a prisoner of war in Timisu, Romania, Robert Rans was somewhat aware of the significance of the raid on Ploesti [...

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