Air warfare

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Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 5
At Santa Cruz Feightner and Wickendoll [Annotator's Note: Lt(jg) Maurice Wickendoll] were flying CAP [Annotator's Note...
Keema, John Segment 5
There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...
Armanini, Joseph Segment 5
Joseph Armanini describes explaining why he missed the target from the previous mission to Colonel Harding [Annotators...
Gibbons, John Segment 5
They [Annotators Note: John Gibbons and the rest of the 100th Bombardment Group] were ordered by Doolittle [Annotators...
Anderson, Clarence "Bud" Segment 6
Clarence Anderson feels that the P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] was a big factor...
Luckadoo, John Segment 6
John Luckadoo and the other aircrews began receiving heavy fire as soon as they reached the enemy coast. The flak was...
Shoens, Robert Segment 6
Robert Shoens notes that they used to argue about certain things at their reunions. There were other missions when...
Ferrier, Harry Segment 6
Ferrier's airplane was taken back to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The engineers do all sorts of things to the plane,...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 6
Alexander Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer], out over the...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 6
Rankin got two confirmed, one probable, and one "damaged" during a fight on 15 March [Annotator’s Note: 1944]. All of...
Merrill, Milford "Bud" Segment 6
Merrill's roommate was Olie Hansen.After a raid the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, CV-6...
Sherman, Richard Segment 6
There were 2 machine guns to the left of the pilot. There were 3 guns on the right side plus a swivel gun in the nose...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 6
They [Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote and his older bother] went to gunnery school and did not know where they were...
Hoff, Donald Segment 6
When Donald Hoff's pilot pulled up from his dive, he pulled up so hard that he blacked out. When he opened his eyes he...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 6
Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotator’s Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 6
Leonard Spivey did not have a full crew for the mission. On the Schweinfurt mission Spivey was the squadron lead...
Noack, John Segment 6
John Noack had a premonition on the day he was shot down that he was not going to come home that day. Noack felt like...
Brown, Roscoe Segment 6
The first plane Dr. Roscoe Brown shot down was a Me 262 jet fighter during a bomber escort mission. On a fighter sweep...
Rall, Gunther Segment 6
[Annotator's Note: for the first 35 seconds of this segment Rall is speaking German with someone in the room other than...
Hopkins, Lewis Segment 6
As they went out, they saw a lone destroyer or possibly a light cruiser. They went to find the carrier but they did not...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 6
Lepla took off with the strike group on the morning of the Battle of Santa Cruz [Annotator's Note: 26 October 1942]....
Jefferson, Alexander Segment 6
Alexander Jefferson traveled overseas on the top deck with white nurses in a group of all black officers. The white...
Keema, John Segment 6
After John Keema’s navigator Frank Delarmie [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling] was killed they were assigned a new...
Armanini, Joseph Segment 6
After the completion of his first tour, Joseph Armanini went on to serve a second tour, this time with the 92nd Combat...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 6
Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...
Gibbons, John Segment 6
John Gibbons is a big believer in the Boeing B-17. He saw a lot of planes that were damaged. Gibbons flew a plane named...
Gross, Clayton Segment 7
Clayton Kelly Gross had to make an emergency landing on Omaha Beach before he went home. He flew a mission over the...
Anderson, Clarence "Bud" Segment 7
Clarence Anderson's first mission was to Frankfurt,Germany. For the mission he was flying wingman for an experienced...
Luckadoo, John Segment 7
When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...
Shoens, Robert Segment 7
Robert Shoens felt that the flak was limited on that mission [Annotators Note: the 6 March 1944 mission to Berlin]. It...
Onesi, Anthony "Tony" Segment 7
Onesi remembers Dick Smith's [Annotator's Note: Onesi's pilot] mother keeping in touch with the crew and their families...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 7
Tyler flew a number of missions at Guadalcanal and again later in the Philippines. On the 15th of June 43 [Annotator's...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 7
Alexander Vraciu and the other members of his squadron [Annotators Note: Fighting Squadron 16 (VF 16)] were in their...
Merrill, Milford "Bud" Segment 7
By the time the second strike was launched, the first attack on Hiryu [Annotator's Note: Japanese aircraft carrier...
Sherman, Richard Segment 7
Sherman had helped to set up many of the dirt revetments. The Chinese had helped as well. Each revetment was high...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 7
Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...

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