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When Robert H. "Bob" Harris finished his induction training, he was assigned to single-engine planes. He was happy with...

Charles Childs did not like the Nazis. He admired the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] pilots, but did...

The first mission during which Clayton Kelly Gross shot down an enemy plane was when he was flying with Billy D. Harris...

To Donald Bryan, the best German fighter plane of the war was the Fw190 until they got the 262 [Annotator’s Note:...

Munich was defended with 105 millimeter guns which were different than the 88 millimeter guns they were used to. They...

Samuel W. Smith was born in September 1924 in Texas. His father was killed when he was 12 years old. He was the oldest...

Louis J. Brown, Jr. reflects on the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]. He first laid...

Donald F. Goyette volunteered for Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan] because his plane got shot up, and he...

John Elliott made one more mission after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

William Morris Paulk was born in Vernon, Texas in 1924. He grew up there with two brothers and one twin sister. In the...

Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William McCowen to discuss a comparison of his nuclear bomb missions in the...

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