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Photograph. Wreckage at airfield after a B-17 Flying Fortress caught on fire and detonated the bombs onboard. Thurleigh...

Photograph, aerial. Bombs dropping onto city, smoke plumes near bridge in right hand corner; bombs and bridge circled....

[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, interviewee asks a woman off camera questions, and she sometimes comes into the...

When Wayne O. Hill was in Belgium, the people were starving. They tried to help them with the harvest. They went to see...

Vernon Leopold ended the war at Berchtesgaden in US Army Air Forces intelligence. He felt it was his personal victory...

Wayne O. Hill would come in after the first responders to remove bombs. [Annotator’s Note: Hill discusses a Smithsonian...

Adolf Wesselhoeft returned to the United States and more training to be an electrical engineer. He studied at the...

For bombardier training, Maurice Hackler went to Deming, New Mexico. He worked with the Norden bombsight over the...

Paul Lefever related in depth his mission to destroy a well protected V-2 rocket manufacturing site in Stettin [...

When he was flying experimental missions, Orrin Welty said he never knew the nature of the business. He describes how...

Orrin Welty describes some of the differences between flying the B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Stanley Berman was born in September 1920 in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and finally to Cincinnati [...

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