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Joseph Geary's baptism by fire was by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. He realized that the bursts...

Joseph O'Donnell went to Fallingbostel, XI-B [Annotator's Note: Stalag XI-B in Fallingbostel, Germany; he arrived on 3...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Siena in the 1990s. Arrow had always been interested in...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick finished his training and was transferred to Florida to join the crew. He had a good group and...

William Scott Stroud was put into an air crew in Utah [Annotator's Note: Wendover Field, later Wendover Air Force Base...

During his time in the Samar Islands, the Philippines, William Schrader [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 23rd...

The first thing Paul Bosworth would do before a mission was get dressed and eat. They could be in the air for hours....

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin joined the Army in Columbus, Ohio in November 1942.] Kneflin was sent to Fort Sill,...

[Annotator's Note: William Fili, his tail gunner, and radio operator were all captured and placed in a village jail...

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