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There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...

On the mission to Blechhammer one of Rackley's partner's lost an engine. He saw the cowling fly off of the engine. His...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was in aviation cadet training when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Donald Albert Carlson was in high school [Annotator's Note: when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

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...

Carl Platkin usually went to London [Annotator’s Note: London, England] alone because he had a couple of girlfriends...

After being promoted to captain and finishing his last bombing mission, Jack Buckner left his group [Annotator's Note:...

Robert "Bob" Livingston was born in March 1923 in Far Rockaway, New York during a blizzard. He was not a good student...

Henry Burkle’s wife’s father was trying to raise chickens. One of the things Burkle did during the Depression [...

Rankin got two confirmed, one probable, and one "damaged" during a fight on 15 March [Annotators Note: 1944]. All of...

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