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As a commander, Donald Strait felt a responsibility to his squadron. He spent a lot of time dealing with his fighter...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

Roland Dullnig [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 668th Bombardment Squadron, 416th Bombardment Group, 9th Air Force...

Joseph Armanini tells a story about how the tail of a B-17 [Annotators Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

Morton Brooks had veteran buddies that shared experiences, although not many had anything similar to what he endured....

Wesley S. Mullen was born in March 1925 in southwest Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] and...

Maurice Hackler recalled having been sent to Czechoslovakia, but they could only do visual bombing in that country....

Gerald Claassen was sent home by way of Le Havre [Annotator’s Note: Le Havre, France] and was given a 30-day leave [...

Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] entered...

[Annotator's Note: Hugh Colbert served as a messenger in Company B, 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th...

Curtis Renner was in an air rescue squadron [Annotator’s Note: attached at times to the Ninth Air Force] to rescue...

Donald Lewis has no memory of the ship's cabin and knows this from his mother's written summary of their trip. [...

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