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Walter McNeely was born in St. Paul, Minnesota [Annotator’s Note: in April 1927]. During the Great Depression [...

Sam V. Abate left Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: in Rapides Parish, Louisiana] for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey [...

Seymour Mermelstein went to Bluefield Junior College in West Virginia for two years and then Rider College in Trenton,...

Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...

Gerhard Franzky was very proud to be a member of the Waffen SS. He sees the inter-service rivalry to be much the same...

Deep penetration raids were the most dangerous, according to Paul Lefever, and he was shot down during an attack on a...

They crossed into eastern France and had to wade through a river as they headed towards the German lines. It was muddy...

Henry Freedman and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were anxiously awaiting their American...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. was born in December 1920 in Topeka, Kansas. He was raised in Osage City, Kansas and Omaha...

Once they finished gunnery training, Leon Waldman and the men he was training with were put into crews. He was in the...

Harley Harned’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the trip over to Europe and the ship having to zig-zag [...

Jimmy Doi was born in Oxnard, California in 1925. Growing up in California was great until the war started. Doi was 16...

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