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Theodore Van Kirk was the group navigator for the 509th Bombardment Group [Annotator's Note: 509th Composite Group]....

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] By October 1943, Edwin B....

[Annotator's Note: There is a break in the video then the video starts while Alfred Pierse Murphy is mid-sentence.] He...

Howard Anderson's crew was given a new airplane, 271, and his crew nicknamed it "Last Resort II." The missions to...

In January [Annotator's Note: January 1943], Myron L. Guisewhite was in preflight training. By Christmas [Annotator's...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. left the service in April 1951 as a first lieutenant. He used the G.I. Bill to take flying...

Lewis Thomas Easterling remarked that his fighter group [Annotator's Note: 365th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

Lloyd Geist contributes his military and career success to his basic flying instructor, who taught him to feel the...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew had another pilot for a few missions because the pilot was on leave. Fitzroy [Annotator's...

Theodore Van Kirk remembers what he was told about the bomb. All they knew was they had to get away from the area as...

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