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Carl Landwehr was transferred to the 8th Air Force in High Wycombe [Annotator's Note: 8th Air Force Bomber Command...

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

Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...

Grant Patton remembers they had to use five-gallon cans to gas the airplanes up. His plane had depth charges [Annotator...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

Garland Bath and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 483rd Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion] were attached to the 5th...

Heywood Mason crossed the Atlantic to Europe in a big convoy. They were not hassled by submarines and torpedoes as the...

The weather was rough when Joseph Alter crossed the Channel [Annotator's Note: the English Channel on 6 June 1944]. It...

Lysander "Ben" Neighbors [Annotator's Note: stationed in Duxford, England with the 14th Fighter Group] serviced P-47s [...

Leon Waldman was able to take leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] after 25...

Gilbert Clift was at Camp Maxey [Annotator's Note: in Paris, Texas] for weeks without any idea where they were headed...

Robert Nichols Cresswell was a participant [Annotator’s Note: as a truck driver with the 291st Engineer Combat...

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