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Harley Bridger recalls a mission on 13 October, Friday the 13th, 1944 to Blechhammer, Germany. It was a synthetic oil...

Paul James Grubb was part of the air war in support of the fierce ground fighting in the Alps before the German forces...

Even though many of the German pilots were under-qualified the 109 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109...

William Howard flew a mission across the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel] as his first mission. They bombed...

Clarence Anderson had to fly differently than usual because of the amount of fuel he had aboard. All of the fighters...

Robert W. McDonald went to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey] for...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator that was shot down over Ploiești, Romania. He says...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

After the war, Jack Buckner used the G.I. Bill to go to school. His first child was born, and he was having a tough...

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

One day before James Siracuse got to fly solo, one of his instructors showed him a maneuver that he said he should not...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer is looking at some war souvenirs of Donald Dean Paynter and puts the camera on some...

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