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Y29 was a wonderful set up. They got there on 24 December [Annotator’s Note: 24 December 1944]. For the first time they...
After Carrol Joy arrived in England, he was sent by train to Ashford Kent. They may have been the closest base to the...
Trained as a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bombardier, Dean Whittaker describes...
Alvin von Frisch departed Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company C, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment,...
For the first several months they were flying out of Bodney, they did not live on base. They lived in a hotel and were...
The Allied campaign in Italy was cold and miserable. Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. fought with some Mexican-American troops....
Earl Williams [Annotator's Note: with the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] had equipment that was used to pick...
There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...
The Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, referred to as the Zeke or Zero] was tough to...
Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 509th Bombardment Squadron, 351st Bombardment Group,...
Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...
The first real fighter airplane Donald Bryan flew was the P-40D with the Merlin engine, not the Allison engine. They...
Cary Salter was in a dogfight when his wing was hit. It flipped the plane over. He went to pull out and nothing...
Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...
Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...
Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...
Walter Ram and his fellow crewmates had to wait for another airplane before continuing their bombing missions. A female...
Tony Schneider begins by discussing that the crew aboard USS Enterprise (CV-6) wanted to "get back" at the Japanese...
The F6F Hellcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] was very tough [Annotator's Note: when...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Asbury went to England and was checked out in the North American P-51 Mustang fighter...
On Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th...
Arthur Joseph Arceneaux Junior and his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Marine Night Fighting Squadron 542 (VMF(N)-542)] had...
Darrell Welch liked to say that he flew from England to North Africa and started a war. Rommel [Annotator's Note:...
Omer Van Huylenbrouck went on his first combat mission with a different crew. It was nothing exciting. [Annotator's...
After flight school Darrell Welch joined the 27th Squadron, which is the oldest squadron, and the 1st Group, which is...
Martin Carmody was briefed that there were no available carriers for them to fly off of. The Saratoga [Annotator's Note...
First Lieutenant Lloyd Reese flew 11 missions as a bombardier on a B-24 for the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th...
The first mission during which Clayton Kelly Gross shot down an enemy plane was when he was flying with Billy D. Harris...
Walter Ram arrived at his base in Bassingbourn, near London. His plane was part of the 94th Bombardment Group, 331st...
Raymond Cauble's first mission was to a concentration camp in Yugoslavia. A general went with Cauble. They dropped...
Donald Bryan got five kills in one day. They had to new K14 sights and it was the first time he had ever fired with one...
In January 1944 the weather was good, and Carl Koone said Allied airplanes could be seen all over Europe "all day,...
George Hardy's unit had one loss in training at Walterboro [Annotator's Note: Walterboro Army Air Field, South Carolina...
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...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

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