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Enrique Cervantes flew two additional missions in Europe after the German fighter crashed into his B-17 [Annotator's...

While serving at Tinker Field near Oklahoma City [Annotator's Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], Edward Field had a...

Robert Wolff had leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in London [Annotator’s Note...

In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...

Samuel W. Smith remembers when the war ended in Europe, bombers were needed in the Pacific. There were 65 crews picked...

Rackley did not have much of a relationship with his commanding officer [Annotator's Note: Rackley is referring to his...

James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck went on his first combat mission with a different crew. It was nothing exciting. [Annotator's...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was very happy that the war was over. They had good food on the ship coming home. His wife...

James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...

The missions William Howard flew on D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

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