Bailing out/loss of plane

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John W. Towle flew his first missions over flying bomb sights in France. [Annotator's Note: The V-1 rocket bomb and V-2...
Homer Cole flew 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Cole served in the US Army Air Forces as a tail gunner aboard...
Chester Brewer went by train to Deopham Green, which was near his airbase [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Deopham...
Paul James Grubb was assigned to bombing runs over the Alps into France after a few days [Annotator's Note: he had...
Cyril Buchert found that the typical targets were hangers and airfields with their airplanes. [Annotator's Note:...
John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...
Harold Gournay flew out of Italy for 18 or 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Gournay served in the USAAF as a waist gunner...
Edward Field was a navigator and an officer but also enjoyed associating with enlisted men. He discovered that one of...
Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] was part...
Edward Nacey flew a lot of missions to bomb bridges, railroad yards, and marshaling yards. Most of his missions were...
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. remembers the mission flown to Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. Although the 8th...
Paul James Grubb experienced his worse raid over Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His only wound resulted...
Aubrey Bradley had always wanted to fly, but had never been in an airplane before he entered the Army Air Corps. His...
Melvin Linkous and his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division]...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks about Jack Buckner's last mission as a bombardier.] They would wake up around...
Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...
Charles Davis experienced his first burial at sea after the 13 to 15 November battle [Annotator's Note: 13 to 15...
Norma Jean Ford Beard lost her father in the war. His remains were only recovered recently. [Annotator’s Note: Beard's...
After surrendering to the German soldier [Annotator's Note: see segment titled Shot Down Over Ludwigshafen], John Sacks...
Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] bailed out...
[Annotator's Note: William Albright had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Germany on 26...
A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...
Ralph Francis Hogan landed in a farm field after bailing out of his plane. Initially when he landed, he thought he...
On 27 March 1945, Fiske Hanley II and his flight crew [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th...
James McDermott had bailed out of his stricken Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and could see it still going North. In 2007...
Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was assigned to the 561st Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force as a...
In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...
[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...
Alexander Jefferson named his plane "Margot" after his classmate's sister. She attended graduation when Jefferson...
Charles Wesley Borders' unit [Annotator's Note: 82nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st Tactical Reconnaissance...
Hewitt Brian Gomez was a navigator training with his crew at Chatham Field [Annotator's Note: Chatham, Georgia]. He...
Kaliste Saloom assisted downed Allied pilots escaping from occupied Europe through Spain and Portugal. Franco [...
Arnold A. Mirsky was assigned as a navigator for the 1st Photo Mapping Charting Reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: 1st...
William McCowen signed on to a crew for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953] and was sent overseas to Kadena...
Richard Miralles was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for four months. They made the...
Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] had a close call at Nichols...

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