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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 interview begins in a room with airplane model and other memorabilia around. It sounds as if...

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

Richard Tangradi’s last mission was to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Frankfurt, Germany]. They had to abort the mission...

Asked by the interviewer to recall his voyage across the Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean], James Pritchett...

Robert "Bob" Rickel went on a mission to Anklam [Annotator's Note: Anklam, Germany with the 524th Bombardment Squadron...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

John Gibbons has no regrets from his service during the war. He had a very successful career during which he held very...

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

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

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

The only thing Baynham recalls about any of his missions except for Dessau was the flak.The day after he was shot down...

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