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Mike Croissant

“We Were Almost Like Brothers”

Staff Sergeant Bill Gorrall had already been on two raids on the city of Linz, Austria, and he knew well how tough a target it was. His...

Mike Croissant

Unbowed: The Story of Art Jurado

In the flak-torn skies above Linz, Austria, on 25 April 1945, Lieutenant John M. Smidl, commanding a B-24 Liberator in the 743rd Bomb...

Mike Croissant

"We approached each mission with solemnity, trepidation, fear, and thoughts of dying today, perhaps”

“Bombing Linz gave me great pleasure,” First Lieutenant Bob M. Barnhart wrote in his journal, because it was so near and dear to the...

Mike Croissant

A Rookie Bomber Crew's Baptism by Fire (Part I)

“First mission, huh?” the veteran ball turret gunner had needled the rookie enlisted men in the waist of a 456th Bomb Group B-24 in the...

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