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Henry Burkle would meet every crew that came back to get the word from the pilot to know what was wrong with the planes...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Martin Baranek stopped in Modena, Italy, where he slept on the floor in a former military academy building operated by...

Because Richard Frothingham didn't get along with his stepmother, he had some problems returning to civilian life, but...

Norman Gustaf Benson's family was Swedish. His father was born in Sweden and immigrated to the United States at an...

[Annotator's Note: There is a background humming noise throughout this interview.] Edwin “Pete” Goldberg [Annotator’s...

Theodore Vallas left the Navy after the war in order to play professional sports. He enrolled in college to play...

Lowell Brueland's first combat mission in the Mustang was a piece of cake. He performed escort duty with a flight of...

Fred Amram paid a lot of attention to the war in Europe. His father listened to the news on the radio. As the war ended...

Oscar Johnson went to Kingman, Arizona for gunnery school and then to Lincoln, Nebraska to assemble the crew. From...

One day, William Curtis [Annotator's Note: aboard a ship off Normandy] watched a German plane come in dropping bombs on...

Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was born in Vienna, Austria in December 1925. She had strict parents but her childhood was very...

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