Interview with Robert Seidel, a Army Air Force WWII veteran from Elkhart, Indiana, who served in the 763rd Bomb Squadron in the European Theater. Accompanied by his wife Helen, Seidel discusses his family, the start of the war and joining the Air Corps, training as a flight engineer, assignment to the B-24 and deployment to Spinazzola, Italy, flying combat missions, life at the base, ditching his aircraft near Salzburg and getting captured, being interrogated, internment at Stalag Luft IV, liberation, and returning to the US. In appendix are three photos of Seidel, his B-24 crew, and their aircraft, Seidel's papers from when he was a German prisoner, his POW log book, the official narrative report of the mission he was lost on, and a letter from his family while he was in Italy.

Letter from R. C. Poyser to Harris L. Kempner discussing their pleasant business relationship during the war and requesting the addresses of those who served alongside Harris in the Navy, mentioning an invitation to visit in Elkhart.

Letter from E. E. Hansen to Harris L. Kempner enclosing a letter to Jim Mooney's assistant and discussing men now out of the Navy and his current business conditions.