European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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There were four phases to Victor Fienup's flight training. Preflight was ground school for two months, primary was half...
Lewis Thomas Easterling was sent to Maxwell Field [Annotator's Notes: Maxwell Field, Alabama] for pre-flight training...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After being accepted into the Army Air...
Harley Bridger entered the Army Air Corps in June 1943 at Camp Robinson in Little Rock [Annotator's Note: Little Rock,...
[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] Joseph Fulton Jr. was born in March 1923 in...
Henry Heim suffered all night long [Annotator's Note: Heim is referring to being injured during the Japanese attack on...
Lloyd Reese trained to be a bombardier on the AT-11 [Annotator’s Note: Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan] and then the B-24 [...
[Annotator's Note: It is very difficult to understand Carleton Cleveland due to sound issues throughout this clip.]...
Henry Lederer chose to enlist in the Air Corps because he always loved flying. His father took him to Grand Central...
After D-Day, Clyde East and the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron began to work in a rather routine fashion. The...
In January 1944 the weather was good, and Carl Koone said Allied airplanes could be seen all over Europe "all day,...
Robert Whitcomb went overseas on a converted cruise liner. After arriving in Liverpool he was sent to Chelveston Air...
John Paul and his crew had flown about five missions when his engineer told him he could not fly anymore. He said that...
Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] and the other...
Gale Ammerman had trained at the Alliance Army Airfield in Nebraska. He was only there a few weeks then went to North...
George Roberts and his crewmates knew ahead of time if they were flying the next day. On the night of 7 October [...
Winfield Zerphey was based on the southern coast of England at Dunkeswell. The airmen lived in Quonset huts. They had...
Walter Douglas and his crew were given a choice to go on a mission as a spare. They decided to go as a spare. On their...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a woman off camera interjects with comments.] James Ramsey Golden slept in...
When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...
Jack Rolfson remembered there was a time when his squadron [Annotator's Note: 427th Bombardment Squadron, 303rd...
John Angier says that once the planes were settled on the bomb run, they could not change positions and the enemy knew...
[Annotator's Note: Herbert Heilbrun is showing a photograph of Lyle Pearson, a squadronmate of Heilbrun's, and himself...
DeQuindre McGlaun flew his first mission [Annotator's Note: with 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group,...
Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...
In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...
Arnol Sellars went overseas to Italy to join a fighter squadron. When he got there, he had a lot more time on the P-47...
In early March [Annotator's Note: March 1944] Harold Shook went on a special mission to bring three guys up to New York...
John T. "Jack" Race was Montgomery's [Annotator's Note: British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery] personal...
Clyde East experienced a slow training program after entry into the Canadian Air Force. He was in flying school during...
John T. "Jack" Race received his commission in February 1943. Since he was on detached service with the British [...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer reads a list of things Robert Payne has written about.] Robert Payne was in Southern...
Once when John T. "Jack" Race was flying a cargo flight for Pan Am [Annotator's Note: Pan American Airways] from Los...
When he arrived in England, Darrell D. Gust knew that at least a third of the original 28 crews that had gone over in...
Eugene W. Chambers' mission [Annotator's Note: while serving with the 406th Night Leaflet Squadron, 492nd Bombardment...
Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: stationed in England with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group,...

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