"Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the ENOLA GAY, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, waves from his cockpit before the takeoff, 6 August 1945." |
"Sharing credit for Negro fighter pilots' victory over Nazis are mechanics George Johnson and James C. Howard. Their outfit, the 99th Fighter Squadron, bagged 12 Nazi fighter planes in two days." |
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"Capt. Wendell O. Pruitt, one of the leading pilots of the 15th Air Force always makes sure that he leaves his valuable ring with his crew chief, S/Sgt. Samuel W. Jacobs." |
"We were getting our second wind now and started flattening out that bulge. We took 50,000 prisoners in December alone. American soldier with captured Germans. Ca. 1944." |
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