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Linwood S. Inscoe was in Memphis, Tennessee on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He...

Calvin F. Bannon was born in Seattle, Washington in 1921 and had two older brothers. One of his brothers flew a B-17 [...

On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck was drafted. They gave him a heavy coat. He had tried for the ski troops. They were on their way...

William Banghart drove a lieutenant in a general’s jeep. This could have led to a court martial. Banghart was in the...

When Clarence Anderson returned from R and R [Annotator's Note: rest and relaxation or recuperation] he was ordered to...

A typical mission for John Luckadoo started by him being woken up between three and half past three in the morning,...

Leahr was shipped overseas in early 1944. He had graduated in Class 43-G [Annotator's Note: Class 43-G graduated in...

Samuel Spector joined the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot trainee but he did not pass the advanced pilot...

Charles Wesley Borders was up at the north end of Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines] just before the invasion...

Richard "Dick" Schneider's first combat mission to bomb Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin, Germany] was not a lot of fun...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

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