Audio Archive

Voices of the 306th

Recorded interviews, reunion roundtables, and wartime broadcasts collected by the association over four decades. Every recording plays in the browser; open a title to load its player.

The archive is organized into four collections below. Recordings that were made at a reunion but take the form of a group conversation are gathered under Veteran Roundtables rather than repeated in both places.

About these recordings. Titles are drawn from the archive's own file records. Some early recordings were saved under recorder-assigned codes rather than descriptive names; where a title could not be established it is marked as untitled rather than guessed. Corrections are welcome through the contact form.

Veteran Interviews & Personal Stories

First-person accounts recorded with individual veterans of the 306th, covering combat missions, captivity, and life at Thurleigh in their own words.

Henry Cordery2 recordings

Cordery, recording 1

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Henry Cordery Interview

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Willard O Elliott2 recordings

Willard Elliott war experience part 2

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Willard Elliott war experience

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Field McChesney4 recordings

Field McChesney

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McChesney at lunch

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McChesney re Alfred

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McChesney re POW time

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Grover C. Goode Jr.1 recording

2012 306th Goode relating tales

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Richard C Huebotter2 recordings

Huebotter part 1

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Huebotter part 2

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Albert McMahan4 recordings

Al McMahon

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Untitled recording (Albert McMahan), part 1 of 3

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Untitled recording (Albert McMahan), part 2 of 3

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Untitled recording (Albert McMahan), part 3 of 3

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Marvin Taver1 recording

Marvin E Traver's last B-17 mission 45min

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Veteran Roundtables

Group conversations recorded at reunions, where several veterans trade recollections in a single session. Roundtables are gathered here regardless of which reunion they were recorded at.