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Donald Dean Paynter always had problems with his heated suit and would be freezing. He would have to go on oxygen at 12...

Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

Martin Richard's first mission [Annotator's Note: from Cheddington, England] was 6 June 1944, D-Day [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator’s Note: Someone in the background is audible throughout this segment. The interviewee also knocks on the...

One of Clarence Anderson's men came across a German pilot shooting at men in parachutes. He shot the German down and...

Archie Maltbie’s first mission from England was against a French railroad bridge. Several pilots missed the bridge but...

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

John Arthur Stege and 14 other pilots were sent home [Annotator's Note: he was a veteran combat pilot with the 48th...

Joel Urice flew his seventh mission in Germany below Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany]. They experienced a lot...

Charles Childs did not like the Nazis. He admired the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] pilots, but did...

Lloyd Reese had been liberated from a prisoner-of-war camp in Romania in September 1945 and returned to the United...

Leon Hirsch enjoyed doing advance theater work for a while but found it not lucrative enough so he took a job as a...

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