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Bernard Peters was born in March 1923 in Oakland, Oregon. He had two older brothers and two younger sisters. His father...

Robert Shoens knew that the planes coming towards him were not the much hoped for escort. In the briefing room after...

George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...

Glen Jostad describes his terrible experience during eight days transit from one Stalag to another. The cramped boxcar...

William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...

On 20 July 1944, Richard Henry Hamilton and his crew on their B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Gale Ammerman went to England just after Christmas 1943. He went to Scotland first. He about froze to death even...

Frank Jasicko’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was bailing out of an airplane for the first time and the fear...

When Donald Bryan went back to Europe for his second combat tour, he returned to the same squadron. He was the senior...

Jerome Harold Black got a call from General Lee [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General John Clifford Hodges Lee...

Ben Epstein reiterated that his mother's influence, and her mantra "Don't ever give up," saved his life the night the...

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

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