Frank DeCicco Jr: B-17 Waist Gunner, 303rd Bomb Group, WW2 - Episode 3 of 3
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Selection · Edition 2026-05-08
The final part of a veteran oral history with Frank DeCicco Jr., waist gunner with the 303rd Bomb Group, covering combat first aid aboard a B-17, fighter escort tactics by P-38s and P-51s, and the grim realities of 8th Air Force operations over Europe. Raw primary source material from a 2003 Library of Congress interview — unpolished but genuine.
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Frank DeCicco Jr. oral history interview (2003) — Library of Congress, Veterans History Project (single-source — see provenance)🎙 Veterans' accounts
Library of Congress Veterans History Project holds interviews with World War II servicemembers including 8th Air Force personnel — searchable at loc.gov/vets (single-source — see provenance)Claims on this page verified against current sources · last refreshed 2026-06-11
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