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Once in England, Richard Gibian was given a few hours in a P-47 [Annotator's Note: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter...

Loevsky was born on Long Island, New York. He was 1 of 3 children.His father worked in a bronze factory. He was a young...

Being off of oxygen, you go into hypoxia after three minutes. Joseph O'Donnell pulled his ripcord right away and went...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Clarence Anderson had to fly differently than usual because of the amount of fuel he had aboard. All of the fighters...

Otto Kirkpatrick talked with some of the guys about how the war affected them after Germany surrendered. Some of them...

Robert Doolan was born in March 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was wonderful to grow up in Cincinnati and he still loves...

The first time Malcolm Higgins saw a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] he wondered how...

After the war, Edward Field was given the task of flying ground troops home via France and North Africa. He was later...

John Arthur Stege briefly used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

Paul Lefever acknowledged that many men suffered because there was a stigma attached to going to a "flak house" for...

Jack Rolfson does not recall having any burial services for fallen men in his squadron [Annotator's Note: 427th...

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