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Richard Asbury graduated from Mariana, Florida [Annotator's Note: Marianna Army Airfield] and went to Hamilton Field,...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

John Gibbons is a big believer in the Boeing B-17. He saw a lot of planes that were damaged. Gibbons flew a plane named...

Archie Maltbie was called up by the air force in January 1943. After going through the selection school in order to...

Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...

Edward Grant was assigned to his unit [Annotator's Note: 412th Bombardment Squadron, 95th Bombardment Group. 8th Air...

For most of George Beaugh's missions his crew would fly at 25,000 to 27,000 feet. On one mission they flew at 32,000...

On one raid, Bernard Smith remembers a plane behind them burst into flames. His first reaction was that it was pretty....

Kenneth R. Williams was born in Alton, Illinois in March 1922. He was an only child. He grew up in Illinois and Ohio....

James Eyre Wainwright was sent to Kearns, Utah and then to Santa Ana [Annotator's Note: Santa Ana, California] for...

Returning to his first encounter during the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German...

After World War 2, William McCowen served in the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953]. Besides a mission that...

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