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William White Brainard served as a radioman on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] for...

[Annotator's Note: Henry Langrehr says he landed on a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église, France during the Normandy...

The bases where Alvin Calendar served were often under attack by the enemy. He spent many a night in an air raid...

Lowell Brueland saw that Germany had its last big gasp during the Battle of the Bulge. His squadron [Annotator’s Note...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

The sky was full of German planes and right before it got daylight, Donald Evans was on deck and could see the Italian...

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

Thomas Bondola was happy on the day of liberation [Annotator’s Note: his prison of war (POW) camp was liberated on 3...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

Robert Inghram graduated from flying school. He and two other graduates were selected to go to fighter training school...

Most of the missions Darrell Welch flew were escorting B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Joseph Simpson remembers most profoundly from World War 2 his feelings when he got out of the Rur River. He did not...

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