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Ernst Schrader was a member of the 8 Staffel, Sturzkampfgeschwader 2 (StGII) in the Luftwaffe. Commanders changed in...

Ernst Schrader was fighting in Russia near the Volga River and Stalingrad in 1943. He felt the Germans could not win...

At the end of the war, Ernst Schrader fought in the streets against the Czechs in the Sudetenland. The Czechs rebelled...

Owen Gibb was born in Canada in 1925. His parents were farmers. He was raised on a farm in Alberta [Annotator’s Note:...

Owen Gibb went to boot camp for six weeks in the Canadian Air Force in the snow. Then they went to Saskatchewan [...

Owen Gibb had a machine gun that put out four thousand rounds a minute. The gun was on a turret. They flew at night....

Owen Gibb remembers that the Americans bombed during the day and the British bombed during the night. They flew B-17s [...

Owen Gibb remembers they always diverted to an American airfield to get hot dogs and ice cream. Gibb met his wife in a...

Joseph Monteyne was a navigator with the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal Canadian Air Force] 425 Squadron, also known as...

Owen Gibb was in England when he found that out his parents were American citizens living in Canada. They had moved...

Joseph Monteyne knew all about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Joseph Monteyne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron 425 (Alouette)] had 20 officers in...

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