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John Keema and a lot of the guys he flew with had qualms about the Münster raid. Unfortunately he did not have anyone...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins in a room with airplane model and other memorabilia around. It sounds as if...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

Gus Gikas and two other men swam about a mile from the sinking HMT Rhona to the Pioneer [Annotator's Note: USS Pioneer...

James Kemp McLaughlin could see the German fighters approaching. The Germans liked to attack from the front and when...

Herbert Heilbrun wore long johns under woolen pants with a warm shirt under a Mae West [Annotator's Note: inflatable...

Lowell Brueland flew missions on 6 June [Annotator’s Note: 6 June 1944] in Normandy. The first mission was to...

Clyde East was born in 1921 on a Virginia tobacco farm. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a share...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Paul what it was like to see Berlin, Germany as the target for the first...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...

James Kemp McLaughlin remembers that after the bombers got fighter cover everything got easier. A damaged aircraft...

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