Search results

Map is loading...

Edward Nickerson remembers little black puffs of smoke on a mission when they were shooting at him. He remembers...

Lowell Brueland had a normal flight training. He graduated in September 1942 and was assigned to the 20th Fighter...

In August 1943, Robert "Bob" Rickel went on his second mission, the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission [Annotator's Note:...

Myron L. Guisewhite trained with the Pathfinders [Annotator's Note: 1st Pathfinder Group (Provisional), 52nd Troop...

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

Jack Buckner was born in Florida but when he was one he moved near Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia] where...

Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Lloyd William (Bill) Reese was born in Milton Center, Ohio. His father was a superintendent of schools. They moved to...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] managed a plant after the...

Leon Hirsch enjoyed doing advance theater work for a while but found it not lucrative enough so he took a job 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: The interviewer asks Bud Loring how he got out of his burning aircraft over France.] He just climbed...

Oral History