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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling, seats squeaking, and people in the background throughout this segment.]...

Timothy Mahoney only went on a flight after he did repairs to the radar equipment. The pilots did not like doing those...

Raymond Cauble got a long leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] when he returned...

Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...

Lloyd Rogers was on the eastern coast of Sicily [Annotator’s Note: Sicily, Italy]. From there they bombed Italy. Then...

Charles Kitowski and the other pilots [Annotator's Note: in the 64th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 12th Air...

Darrell Welch did encounter 190s [Annotator's Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], which looked a lot like...

Kassal remembers they moved very quickly through France, through the Rhone Valley, stopping in various cities like...

There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

James Kemp McLaughlin was born in Charleston, West Virginia in December 1918. He grew up on a small farm and attended...

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