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	1st Lt. Calvin J. Spann: Tuskegee Airman. Fighter pilot P-51 with 332nd Fighter Group. Ramitelle, Italy, 15th Air Force. 27 pages of text. 15 photographs. Map. Newspaper articles
	Major William T. Larkin: Pilot B-24 with 7th Bomb Group, 9th Squadron. Pandaveswar, India. 10th Air Force. 36 pages of text. 18 photographs. 3 short stories written by Larkin. Map.
	1st Lt. James Harris: Pilot A-36 with 27th Fighter/Bomber Group Tunisia, Sicily, Italy. 12th Air Force. 31 pages of text. 21 photographs. Map. 56 pages of transcribed very interesting letters written home explaining in detail his training and combat experiences.
	S/Sgt. Martin L. Razus: Crew Chief with 35th Fighter Group, 39th Squadron (P-38, P-47, P-51) New Guinea to Okinawa. 5th Air Force. 43 pages of text. 21 photographs. Map. 7 pages of 39th Squadron History.
	S/S Martin M. Mizenko: Tail Gunner with 97th Bomb Group, 414th Squadron Foggia Italy 15th Air Force. 24 pages of text. 8 photographs. Map.
	1st Lt. Aurele R. “Van” Van De Weghe: Pilot P-51 and C-47 with the 1st Air Commando Group. India and Burma. 35 pages of text. 17 photographs. Map. 5 short stories written by Van De Weghe. 18 pages of correspondence between Van De Weghe and Japanese Air Reconnaissance Officer Masakazu Shimizu. History of 1st Air Commando Group.
	Cpl. William H. Collins: Airplane Mechanic B-24, B-29 Flight Engineer B-24 with AAF Eastern Flight Training Command. 23 pages of transcribed Wartime Diary of an 18 year old.  9 photographs. Map.
	S/Sgt. Julius Stillman: Right Blister Gunner B-29 with 499th Bomb Group 879th Squadron.  20th Air Force. Saipan. 61 pages of transcribed Combat Diary. 21 photographs. Map. 5 pages of Army records and papers. Diary recounts in detail the first heavy raid on Tokyo November 24, 1944.
	S/Sgt. Julian Rosenfeld: Left Waist Gunner with 30th Bomb Group 27th Squadron and 11th Bomb Group 98th Squadron B-24. 7th Air Force. Saipan, Guam, Okinawa. 31 pages of text. 20 photographs. Map. 6 pages of Army records and papers.
	Sgt. Edward W. Trinkleback: Photo-Topographer with 6th Photo-Reconnaissance Group 36th Squadron. 5th Air Force. Hollandia, New Guinea and Biak Philippines, Okinawa, Japan. 41 pages of text. 23 photographs. Maps. Letters and newspaper article on reunion with Japanese family befriended during the occupation of Japan
	Captain Joseph L. Lasater: Pilot B-17 with 305th Bomb Group 364th Squadron, Chelveston, England 8th Air Force.  17 pages of transcribed Combat Diary. 22 photographs. Maps. Booklet includes short memoirs written by two of the surviving crew members. Plus the Group Operations Report for their mission of May 27, 1944 to Mannheim, Germany and two Squadron Mission Reports: June 14 and 18, 1944. Reader gets to view these missions from three vantage points: (1) As experienced in 1944 (2) Looking back on these missions fifty-five years later (3) The official mission plan from Group and Squadron level.
	Captain Robert F. Lasher: Pilot PBY with 1st/7th Emergency Rescue Squadron. 12th Air Force. Italy, Corsica, France. Rescued downed flyers in Mediterranean Sea. 1945 moved to India, Okinawa. 20 pages of text. 9 photographs. Map. 19 pages of Army records.
	S/Sgt. Edwin W. Hays: Tail Gunner with 95th Bomb Group 335th Squadron. Horham, England. 8th Air Force. Shot down February 24, 1944. POW in Stalags: VI, IV and I. 32 pages of text. 27 photographs. 3 maps. Booklet includes Danish police report of the crash (in English). Accounts of his return to Denmark in 1995 to the site of the crash. Newspaper account of his 1998 meeting with the German Fighter pilot who shot them down in 1944.
	Kathleen A. Hilbrandt: Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) 8 pages of text, 11 photographs, 38 pages of WASP records and papers. Hilbrandt was in the last class of WASP’s to graduate.
	Hazel Stamper Hohn: Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) 16 pages of text. 14 photographs. 29 pages of WASP records and papers. Hazel joined the WASPs in 1943.
	1st Lt. Karl M. Kloeppel: Pilot P-47 with the 365th Fighter Group 387th Squadron. 9th Air Force. England, France, Belgium. 26 pages of text. 5 photographs. Map. 25 pages of Army records and papers.
	S/Sgt. Alfred K. Hollritt: Ball Turret Gunner with 303rd Bomb Group 427th Squadron. Molesworth, England. 8th Air Force. 30 pages of text. 13 photographs.  2 Maps. 12 pages of Army records and papers.
	2nd Lt. Frances “Rusty” Brennan Rice: Army Nurse Corps. Nurse with the 236th General Hospital, 7th Army. Besançon and Épinal, France. Served during the Battle of the Bulge. 34 pages of text. 19 photographs. Map.

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