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When George Roberts flew to Schweinfurt they ran out of ammunition, except for in the radio room, on the way to the...

Henry Lederer says that over 600,000 people were killed in the Civil War. [Annotator's Note: American Civil War, 1861...

Bernard Knese found out he was going into the Army Air Force when he went to basic training. Basic training lasted two...

When Jack Sanders decided to enlist, he knew nothing about air operations let alone how hard it was to get into the air...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany and taken prisoner. On 4 April 1945,...

Stanley Berman [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force in England] trained on a Stearman PT-17 [Annotator's Note:...

Marvin Raymond Edwards and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 856th Bombardment Squadron, 492nd Bombardment Group, 8th Air...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

While he was training with his ten man crew in Florida, Jesse Wofford's mother visited him and treated the whole crew...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] Joseph Fulton Jr. continued training in P-40s [...

Enrique Cervantes felt the urge to join the war effort after the United States' entry into the conflict. His older...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

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