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Ram, Walter The Long March and Liberation
Walter Ram and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] who could walk were marched out of Stalag XVII as the...
Sweatt, Robert Shot Down in Occupied Territory
On his seventeenth mission, Robert Sweatt was returning from Ludwigshafen, Germany when Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note...
Bussel, Norman Moving to Stalag Luft IV
While in an interrogation center in Frankfurt, Germany, Norman Bussel was not allowed to do anything to pass the time...
Braunstein, Arthur Joining the Army Air Corps
Arthur Braunstein was born in New York [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in February 1924. His father was a...
Rickel, Robert Black Thursday Battle
Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...
Neilson, Francis Overseas Deployment to Italy
Among the many things Francis Neilson learned in Lincoln, Nebraska was that oxygen was a good cure for a hangover. In...
Wolff, Robert Returning from Regensburg
Robert Wolff remembers the briefing for the Regensburg mission [Annotator’s Note: the Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission on...
Bala, Walter The Invasion of Poland and Drafted into the Air Force
Walter Bala grew up in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit, Michigan]. His parents were Polish immigrants, and Bala had...
Bridger, Harley First Mission over Budapest and Mission Requirements
Harley Bridger and his crew lived in tents with six men each. They were fortunate with their engineer. Bridger felt the...
Rosenberg, George Missions and Returning Home
After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...
Strunk, Chester Bailing Out After the Ploiesti Mission
Chester Strunk and his crewmates who were originally assigned together had flown with separate crews until they were...
Shook, Hal American Air Power in Normandy
Recalling some of the highlights of his experiences, Harold Shook said it didn't look like the Luftwaffe [Annotator's...

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