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In primary training, Revis Haslett flew a P-17 [Annotator's Note: the PT-17 Stearman]. In basic training, he flew a B-...

Only one time did Frederick Amore come into a truly dangerous situation. He was not supposed to be in a "combat area,"...

Henry Lederer was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in March 1920. His father was a watchmaker and jeweler who came to...

Walter Atwood worked for Boeing [Annotator's Note: The Boeing Company] for a couple of years and got deferments [...

Before he graduated, Harold Daniel Snyder went to enlist in the Army Air Corps with three others. His parents did not...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

Paul Lefever acknowledged that many men suffered because there was a stigma attached to going to a "flak house" for...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Whitman was captured after bailing out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber and...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the interviewer and interviewee talking.] Norman Kinsey's mother was...

After nine months in a prison, William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17...

On 25 March 1938, the Greek freighter Steve Pisanos got a job aboard steamed to Oran, Algeria, in North Africa. He...

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