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In late May 1945, Gerald Auerbach's crew was chosen to become the lead crew in the squadron [Annotator's Note: 881st...

The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...

John W. Towle volunteered for the service. He had been attending the University of Tennessee but had a wreck and was...

Frank Bostwick was born in 1925 in Blanchard, Louisiana and grew up in Blanchard during the Great Depression. His...

Donald Albert Carlson did a lot of training and was assigned an airplane and a crew [Annotator's Note: in preparation...

Malcolm Higgins never saw the morale down within the ranks of the 8th Air Force. To him, morale was fine. Base activity...

Clyde East was provided a week of instruction after his transfer to the United States Army Air Forces. That was to...

Charles Childs was lucky to graduate [Annotator's Note: in 1938]. He had some friends going to college and they needed...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

After being a prisoner of war in Germany, Donald E. Casey returned to the United States and suffered from post...

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Olen Grant was living in a hotel in Austin, Texas when he got a call from Jim Armstrong. It was the first time Grant...

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