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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Doolan to describe how a bombing mission would go.] They would be...

Homer Cole flew 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Cole served in the US Army Air Forces as a tail gunner aboard...

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

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

There were four phases to Victor Fienup's flight training. Preflight was ground school for two months, primary was half...

[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip.] Jack Sinise had heard about the B-17 [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: No mention is made here of the mission being described, however, from later interviews and the...

Victor Fienup and his crew [Annotator's Note: in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

Jack Sinise arrived in England in January 1944 [Annotator's Note: and joined the 379th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force...

When he arrived on the European continent, Joseph Pilcher was assigned to the 378th Fighter Squadron, 362nd Fighter...

[Annotator's Note: John Paul served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

There was a chaplain in the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag XVII-B] who went around in an effort to keep up the morale...

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