During the 1995 observance of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, a symposium was held at the National Archives and Records Administration, during which eleven USAAF veterans, in separate sessions covering the conflicts in Europe and Asia, reflected on their own wartime experiences of half a century ago. They spoke with clarity and authority and in remarkable detail on such topics as military preparedness, leadership, training, racial segregation, the treatment of American prisoners of war, military technology, the Allied invasion of Japan, and the use of atomic weapons. Reminiscences and remarks are faithfully preserved herein.