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The war matured Robert Whitcomb. Before he was drafted he was determined to become a musician. After the war, he used...

Virgil Clayton Moen was trained in gliders in the Army Air Corps. Many guys died in glider crashes because they were...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to California for preflight school. They were put on a troop train for Santa Ana, California....

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group did a...

Roland M. Lee encountered flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] on most of his missions [Annotator's...

Baynham doesn't remember many details from his interrogation. He was accused of being a spy and was threatened with...

Gilbert Shawn was not shipped to basic training. Instead, he went to an air field in Kentucky as a cadet. Shawn took a...

On one mission, Bernard Smith's aircraft was taking off and the left wing began to dip. He got frightened and they hit...

Archie Maltbie’s first mission from England was against a French railroad bridge. Several pilots missed the bridge but...

[Annotator's Note: Bernard Smith flew his final five missions with "bastard" crews or crews made of men who did not...

Archie Maltbie and his outfit [Annotator's Note: the 388th Fighter Squadron, 365th Fighter Group] began flying missions...

Paul Bosworth was born in November 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. [Annotator's Note: Sound cuts in and out.] He was in high...

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