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Clarence Anderson's first mission was to Frankfurt,Germany. For the mission he was flying wingman for an experienced...

The Army Air Corps knew that they needed to get the best pilots. Robert Shoens took his training in January of February...

Three years after the Berlin Airlift [Annotator's Note: Western Allies' operation to supply the blockaded city of West...

Cary Salter was in a dogfight when his wing was hit. It flipped the plane over. He went to pull out and nothing...

Earl Forstall landed in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] when he returned home. They gave him a steak...

Mack Fitzgerald was a Georgian who enlisted in the Army Air Force after the Pearl Harbor attack. He was trained as a...

The first real fighter airplane Donald Bryan flew was the P-40D with the Merlin engine, not the Allison engine. They...

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

Jack Rolfson did not like the missions where he had to go behind enemy lines. When he was in the service, the Army...

Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator'...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

Robert Harris was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1922. The years of the Great Depression were tough. It hit hard in...

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