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[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey joined the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California in 1943.] He was so excited....

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

Onesi remembers the first prisoner of war (POW) camp he was in. It was an older camp that the Germans added barracks to...

Lowell Brueland flew missions on 6 June [Annotator’s Note: 6 June 1944] in Normandy. The first mission was to...

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

Jack Buckner says the biggest problem with Army life is the boredom. They played baseball and card games. On a day off...

Clarence Anderson describes how the P-51 Mustang [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] came...

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

Lloyd Reese was asleep, and his father woke him to tell him about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He knew that we were in...

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

Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...

After William White Brainard returned home and was discharged from the Air Force in San Antonio [Annotator’s Note: San...

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