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Learning how to fly was quite a job for Bud Loring. He had never flown before in his life. They had civilian...

After being badly wounded and captured by the Germans, Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the...

Among the many things Francis Neilson learned in Lincoln, Nebraska was that oxygen was a good cure for a hangover. In...

Along with his fellow refugees, Robert Sweatt was taken under guard to London, England. A bombardier from his squadron...

Grover Tyner was attending Mercer University [Annotator’s Note: in Macon, Georgia], but was in Forsyth, Georgia eating...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Isham Davis [Annotator’s Note: serving...

Eugene Vaadi was born 1 July 1921 Watertown, New York. He spent his life there until entering the military. His father...

Being as friendly possible, Robert Heller and his crew surrendered. As far as he knew, only one of the crew had died,...

On the Memmingen mission, which was the first day after he arrived, the ball turret gunner was killed on another plane...

Leonard Spivey did not have a full crew for the mission. On the Schweinfurt mission Spivey was the squadron lead...

[Annotator’s Note: There is traffic noise in the background throughout this segment.] Thomas Beary served with the...

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

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