Bailing out/loss of plane

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[Annotator's Note: Abner Aust was a flight instructor in Fort Myers, Florida in 1943.] They started flying the P-40N [...
Martin Banyas enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942 because he liked the fighting Marines. The first job for his ship [...
The 506th Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force] was called...
Louis Conter and the VP-11 [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 11] Catalinas [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY...
Patrick Russell flew ground support for the battle of Okinawa. His plane carried various types of ordnance. Some had...
According to Lincoln Piazzo, the J model of the B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber]...
Wendell Galbraith has never told a story about the time he learned what it was like to go down in a plane while not...
Floyd Annas had always wanted to fly and enlisting in the Army Air Corps was a way to do it. He was sent to Miami Beach...
Monroe S. Wolyn ended up flat on the floor of the plane. He heard a loud bang. He could not move. The wing had blown...
Philip Whitman's last seven missions were over Vienna, Austria. He made five trips over Ploesti [Annotator's Note:...
Alexander Jefferson flew a mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. It was the first time Jefferson had...
Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...
Calvin Moret was still a 19 year old teenager when his mother pinned his wings on him. The war in the Pacific ended...
Although Archibald Higgins thought he would fly home. That did not happen. He sailed on a ship from Manila. The voyage...
Donald W. Bertino came home through Camp Philip Morris [Annotator's Note: one of the transit and rehabilitation camps...
Richard "Dick" Schneider had somewhat of a difficult time adjusting to civilian life upon his return to the United...
When Robert Freligh got out of the navy he went back to school at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. They had to go to...
Richard Klenoski's most memorable World War 2 experience was bailing out of his plane. He put both feet down and his...
Louis Conter returned to the United States for night fighter training. When he received his commission in New Guinea,...
[Annotator's Note: The interview begins in a room with airplane model and other memorabilia around. It sounds as if...
Winfield K. "Win" Zerphey was born in October 1924 in the small town of Floren outside of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. He...
William Albright's father was a mailman. Albright was born in May 1923 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1960, he worked...
David Harvey was born in September 1926. [Annotator's Note: Harvey says he was born "around here" but the town name is...
Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...
Norman Bussel had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress over Berlin, Germany. He and 65 other prisoners...
When Jack Leaming [Annotator's Note: with Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] saw the wing...
Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator that was shot down over Ploiești, Romania. He says...
On 19 March 1945, Linwood S. Inscoe was on a mission [Annotator's Note: with 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group...
In January 1945, an engine change was required, so Howard Anderson had to fly the plane for four hours to test the...
Richard Bennett recalled a patrol near Palau when PBYs [Annotator's Note: Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat] picked...
The sole duty of Clyde East and his squadron during the Battle of the Bulge was to perform reconnaissance flights in...
Norma Jean Ford Beard was anticipating the discovery of her father's remains. [Annotator's Note: Beard's father, US...
Charles Struble remembers planes [Annotator's Note: of the 421st Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th...
Frank Aleksandrowicz was approached by his captain to go to OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] in...
On reflection, Robert Sweatt said it seemed like his life was "a mess." He never went to the B-29 [Annotator's Note:...
Jack A. Gillis' most memorable event of the war was an errant landing of a disabled aircraft that was nearly wrecked....

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