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Robert A. Stachel was assigned to the 351st Squadron [Annotator's Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

The 71st Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] usually guarded...

Darrell D. Gust's second, third and fourth missions happened one day apart. Then a fog moved in, grounding the group [...

Robert Rans recalls that his first mission was to Messina, Sicily and he remembers being scared as he saw the wall of...

Wendell Galbraith has never told a story about the time he learned what it was like to go down in a plane while not...

Norman Bussel arrived in Glasgow, Scotland and were greeted by a bagpipe band. The Red Cross had coffee and donuts but...

When his crew got to Italy, Edwin Sved said they lived in tents in a farm field, and flew out of a makeshift airstrip...

Floyd Horne was fortunate that his first combat mission was short. It was near Calais [Annotator's Note: Calais, Hauts-...

[Annotator's Note: George Roberts served in the USAAF as a radio operator and gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

Jack Rolfson born in September 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in the city, went to school, and would ride his bike...

Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

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