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  • Kaiser, Raymond Prewar to Drafted

    Raymond Kaiser was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York] in February 1919.

  • Kaiser, Raymond Returning Home

    [Annotator's Note: For pilots like Raymond Kaiser, combat tours went by time in China, instead of by number of missions.] In Europe, a combat

  • Kaiser, Raymond The P-40

    Raymond Kaiser always mocked the P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] as low and slow but he loved the airplane.

  • Kaiser, Raymond Thoughts About the War

    The war did not change Raymond Kaiser a bit. He felt like he was doing his job.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 1

    Kalil grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana during the Great Depression. He was one of nine children, six girls and three boys.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 10

    Kalil does not know what happened to the P-47 pilot. The airmen were taken to a different camp from the infantry.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 11

    When the Germans unloaded the prisoners of war from the trains, Kalil remembers British medics helping them.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 12

    Kalil mentions that it was quite an ordeal flying back to the United States because one of the engines caught on fire and they encountered a lightn

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 2

    Kalil and the others were not prepared while training in Louisiana. They did not have any of the equipment they would be using in the field.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 3

    The men were glad to see their commander Lyle Bouck come in and replace their original platoon leader.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 4

    Kalil thought his chance of survival was fifty percent.

  • Kalil, Louis Segment 5

    Kalil mentions moving into the positions previously occupied by the 2nd Infantry Division at Lanzareth, Belgium.

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