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Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. left the service in April 1951 as a first lieutenant. He used the G.I. Bill to take flying...

Lewis Thomas Easterling remarked that his fighter group [Annotator's Note: 365th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

Lloyd Geist contributes his military and career success to his basic flying instructor, who taught him to feel the...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew had another pilot for a few missions because the pilot was on leave. Fitzroy [Annotator's...

Theodore Van Kirk remembers what he was told about the bomb. All they knew was they had to get away from the area as...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Upon arriving in England in...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

Howard Anderson soon found out General LeMay [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Major General, later United States...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Myron L. Guisewhite flew...

Frederick Moore was born in December 1924 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts during...

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