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

Stephen Ananian's first combat mission was a ramrod mission, one where fighters escort bombers. Cowboys in the old days...

David Paul Spencer heard about the end of the war through the paper. Spencer remembers that he had to go through...

Curtis Renner was in an air rescue squadron [Annotator’s Note: attached at times to the Ninth Air Force] to rescue...

Irving Becker had left Anzio [Annotator's Note: Anzio, Italy] and was headed for Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy]...

Donald E. Casey [Annotator’s Note: whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber was shot down over Hamburg, Germany...

George Roberts was signed up to fly 25 missions. After flying only 16 missions, however, that required number was...

Daniel Samuelson was a gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. He loved the plane, but it had nothing for...

Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] captured...

Richard Candelaria thinks it is a shame that the American public did not get to see their 8th Air Force. They were able...

Philip Whitman was born in May 1919 in Zion, Illinois. He lived there until he was 12 when he moved to Wenatchee,...

Kalil recalls the events that took place on 16 December of 1944. They woke to artillery fire around 5:30 a.m. The...

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