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Frank Fontana was born in St. Louis, Missouri in August 1922. He grew up in St. Louis. He had one brother who was two...

When Elizabeth Gibbens completed basic training, she was sent to Camp Shanks, New York. She found it exciting to get...

Zawada regrets not finding out who the others prisoners were in his ward. He's never been able to find out anything...

For the first several months they were flying out of Bodney, they did not live on base. They lived in a hotel and were...

Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...

Herman Yates unloaded and went through Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France] and headed down toward Paris [...

Wilhelm Gehlen was born in November 1934 in Viersen [Annotator's Note: Viersen, Germany]. He remembers growing up...

Ernest L. Poulson recalled driving around with a friend and a couple of girls when he heard the news on the radio that...

John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

Kenneth H. Bailey was 20 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

John T. "Jack" Race was flying very important people around in a regular line C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47...

Clarence Anderson went on a couple of patrols with an experienced pilot in the lead and was then sent out on his own....

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