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Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. reported to Langley Field, Virginia. He practiced a lot of formation flying, air to...

On 9 November 1942, Norman Kinsey was offshore of Casablanca and Fédala [Annotator's Note: both in Morocco]. He awoke...

When John B. Butz arrived in Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] it was extremely run down. The citizens there...

The first couple of bombing missions William Fili was on were "milk runs" [Annotator's Note: slang term used by...

In Italy, William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces] would only see Italians when he was...

When they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and the men on his aircrew] got back to the field they realized they had...

Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

John Lawler never doubted the United States would win the war, but did not know how long it would take. He received...

Darrell Welch trained on twin engine aircraft. He was flying bombers in flight school and assumed he was going to be a...

Kassal was born in Harlem, New York on 28 February 1917. His parents were Polish immigrants. At a young age, his family...

Frank Finklang had intentions to go to pilot training but learned that the Air Force closed pilot school. He decided to...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

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