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Some of DeQuindre McGlaun's crew [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th...

John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...

Wendell Galbraith landed in a yard that was like an apple orchard [Annotator's Note: after being shot down on 22 March...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

When he arrived in England, Darrell D. Gust knew that at least a third of the original 28 crews that had gone over in...

The missions James Kemp McLaughlin flew without fighter cover were much tougher missions. When they took off, P-47s [...

Paul Lefever acknowledged that many men suffered because there was a stigma attached to going to a "flak house" for...

Otto Kirkpatrick talked with some of the guys about how the war affected them after Germany surrendered. Some of them...

Only one time did Frederick Amore come into a truly dangerous situation. He was not supposed to be in a "combat area,"...

Jack Lengsfield says that although he thought about the moral implications of bombing cities, he had no qualms and...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Jack Rolfson was anxious to fly his first mission. He recalled he could not sleep the night before. At the time he flew...

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