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Joseph Pilcher was born in March 1925 and at the age of 17, the Army Air Corps allowed him to test for cadet training....

In August 1943, Robert "Bob" Rickel went on his second mission, the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Rans about what sounds he heard after being hit by enemy fire.] Robert...

John Paul and his crew had flown about five missions when his engineer told him he could not fly anymore. He said that...

Deep penetration raids were the most dangerous, according to Paul Lefever, and he was shot down during an attack on a...

When John Gibbons arrived over Berlin that day [Annotators Note: 6 March 1944] the flak was incredibly intense. Gibbons...

Vincent Pale was in Philadelphia when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and some friends decided to...

Glen Jostad thought life at Stalag VI was much better than Stalag IV. [Annotator's Note: Jostad was initially held at...

Hewitt Brian Gomez's routine missions were to transport secret agents behind enemy lines to help the resistances in...

Sabol was born in 1924 and knew when the war broke out that he would have to serve in one branch or another. He chose...

In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...

Francis Dymnicki does not remember his first mission. He flew missions over France in preparation for D-Day [Annotator'...

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