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Edward Field was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York in 1924. He was one of six children born to Eastern...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was accepted into pilot school [Annotator's Note: after having been drafted and the accepted...

Michael Doi believes that the war did not change his personality. Doi was an athlete in high school. He was a pole...

Jack Buckner and his aircrew would get orders each late afternoon as to what bombs to load. They did not know the...

[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon was wounded in France.] Dillon was in the hospital from June to September [Annotator's...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

Norris Waddill returned to Texas after the war. He spent three years touring the country before he settled down and got...

James Livaudais was born in Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. He was one of eight children. There were six boys and two...

It took three weeks for John H. Price, Jr. to make the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, all the while zig-zagging to...

John Howland had been involved in Operation Fortitude in deceiving the Germans before D-Day. They were not affected by...

George Beaugh recalled that his crew took the Northern route to England. Since the weather was so bad, they had to stop...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

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