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Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

William McCowen signed on to a crew for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953] and was sent overseas to Kadena...

DeQuindre McGlaun was born on a farm in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. He was the youngest of 12 children. They lived...

Charles Childs feels that if we had not had a nuclear weapon, we would be speaking Japanese. During the Berlin Airlift...

Ray Garcia and Al Nickels [Annotator's Note: later United States Air Force Colonel Albert B. Nickels] both made the Air...

Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] stayed...

Ryan O’Brien's most memorable experience was when the Messerschmitts [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109 or...

Jack Rolfson would get leave to London [Annotator's Note: London, England] every now and then. On specific missions to...

[Annotator's Note: Darrell D. Gust served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Jerome Harold Black was a student at LSU [Annotator's Note: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana] and...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

[Annotator's Note: There is a buzzing sound throughout this clip.] After the war in Europe ended with VE-Day [Annotator...

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