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Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that the number three engine burned through fuel lines to the number four engine. Their plane...

[Annotator's Note: John Paul served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

George McGovern had one his buddies took him up in a plane to see if he could still fly a few years ago. He was able to...

[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip.] Jack Sinise had heard about the B-17 [Annotator's...

Vernon Grimes wanted to protect his rank, so he joined the Reserves after the war and was called up for the Korean War...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr.'s first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

Captured after bailing out of his flak damaged B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber], Eben...

The attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] did not...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Gale Ammerman to describe 17 September 1944, the start of Operation Market...

Kassal was born in Harlem, New York on 28 February 1917. His parents were Polish immigrants. At a young age, his family...

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