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Archibald Higgins flew the four-engine B-24J [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24J Liberator heavy bomber]. It was a...
George Roberts and his crewmates knew ahead of time if they were flying the next day. On the night of 7 October [...
The United States was going into Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea] and the Japanese thwarted the...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a woman off camera interjects with comments.] James Ramsey Golden slept in...
[Annotator's Note: Herbert Heilbrun is showing a photograph of Lyle Pearson, a squadronmate of Heilbrun's, and himself...
Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...
[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...
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...
Louis Zamperini thought that the mission [Annotator's Note: to bomb Wake Island] was a piece of cake because they were...
In January 1943, James Kemp McLaughlin was ordered to fly the commanding general, Lieutenant General Jacob Devers, and...
During one of his first combat missions, one of the gunners on David Lehigh's plane panicked. He found out a few...
Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...
Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...
Herman Molen was in the 305th Bombardment Group. They spent a lot of time training because of the weather. They would...
Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that while traveling to Europe in a convoy, on one side all he could see was the ocean, and...
William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...
Cyril Buchert was stationed on Biak. He was overseas for a full year. He saw few locals except when he was in Manila en...
Raymond Cauble just wanted to fly. There was a boy with them on the train to California. When they graduated, he went...
Clyde East was provided a week of instruction after his transfer to the United States Army Air Forces. That was to...
John Alison flew with Tex Hill [Annotator's Note: later Brigadier General David Lee Hill, known as Tex to friends and...
[Annotator's Note: David Oreck served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...
Cyril Buchert as well as all the units flying off the island [Annotator's Note: New Guinea] were referred to as the "...
Vernon Micheel flew the second attack flight against the Japanese [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in Scouting Squadron 6...
John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Geary finished navigation school and was assigned to a crew at Davis-Monthan Field, now Davis...
The ten member B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] crew that Robert Heller joined was...
Joseph McGuire went on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] to Bombay [Annotator'...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Payne about friction between the officers of his 463rd Parachute Field...
Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...
The missions George McGovern flew usually required between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of bombs, with ten of those bombs...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was captured and taken to Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, along with his copilot...
Frank Buschmeier and his crew had another pilot for a few missions because the pilot was on leave. Fitzroy [Annotator's...
From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...
When Ernest L. Poulson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 567th Bombardment Squadron, 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...
Wallace Jeffery and the 300 or so troops in his unit got together after Paris. [Annotator’s Note: the unit was the...
Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...

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