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[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. After being assigned to an air crew, Chester...

John Angier had been shot down over Cologne, Germany, nearly beaten to death by civilians and saved from them by German...

During one mission when Lowell Brueland escorted allied bombers over Berlin, a flight of eight JU-88s [Annotator’s Note...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

After 27 hours, Irving Baum and the other prisoners [Annotator's Note: after evacuating from Stalag Luft III in Sagan,...

Strange things would happen in the air for Daniel Samuelson. He was well-trained. He would wear a mask for oxygen....

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2. He was in the Jungvolk...

Irwin Stovroff was based in Shipdham Airfield outside of Norwich, England. Norwich was the central point for many of...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...

Most of Bernard Smith's missions were to railroad marshalling yards. [Annotator's Note: SMith walks off camera for a...

Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...

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