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William Albright got along well with this crew. There were two or three of them who did things together. They were the...

The day before William Albright's second mission, two B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...

George Roberts remembers a pilot named Clyde Cosper. He was a sergeant who went through flight school and was...

Thomas Creekmore did what they told him [Annotator's Note: when Creekmore was drafted January 1943]. He told his wife...

Monroe S. Wolyn ended up flat on the floor of the plane. He heard a loud bang. He could not move. The wing had blown...

Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk trained as an Army Air Forces B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Owen Gibb had a machine gun that put out four thousand rounds a minute. The gun was on a turret. They flew at night....

After war started, Alice Howie went to Arlington, Virginia to work for IBM [Annotator's Note: International Business...

On one mission, Bernard Smith's aircraft was taking off and the left wing began to dip. He got frightened and they hit...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel says the P-39 [Annotator's Note: Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft] had a bad reputation. It...

Albion Kenneth Hutcherson [Annotator's Note: a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber serving with the...

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