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  • Urice, Joe Berlin

    Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast.

  • Urice, Joe Entrance into Service

    Joel Urice moved to Taft, Texas during his junior year of high school in 1940. It was a different culture of people. He graduated in May 1941.

  • Urice, Joe Interviews

    Joel Urice used to resist being interviewed. He thinks if they have heard one story, they have heard them all, only the names have been changed.

  • Urice, Joe Kassel, Germany

    Joel Urice was assigned to an apartment with another 100th Bombardment Group member in Germany.

  • Urice, Joe Missions to Germany

    Joel Urice saw the hole in their plane before they landed. He does not remember ever discussing the missions with the rest of the crew.

  • Urice, Joe Postwar Life

    Joel Urice was changed by the war in a lot of ways. He developed maturity. He did not like the conditions they lived under.

  • Urice, Joe Prewar Life

    Joel Urice was born in Oklahoma in March 1924. He grew up in a small town. Everything moved slower back then.

  • Urice, Joe Returning Home

    Joel Urice was a leading NCO [Annotator's Note: noncommissioned officer] on the troop carrier.

  • Urice, Joe Tail Gunner

    Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note: Hamburg, Germany] getting packed

  • Urice, Joe The First Missions

    Joel Urice was assigned to the 100th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] in En

  • Urice, Joe War's End

    Joel Urice remembers the plane “Our Gal Sal” [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 100th Bombardment Group], an

  • Ussery, Jake Becoming a Navy Fighter Pilot

    Jake Ussery enlisted in Monroe, Louisiana. He was in the Navy but lived in a barracks in Monroe.

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