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John Angier first met his crew in the spring of 1944 and then went overseas in a brand-new, shiny, silver B-17 [...

Edward J. Manzi was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in February 1924 and grew up in nearby Woodbury. He was one of five...

For Gerard Halpern the trip from the United States to Italy was unremarkable except that they ran out of food near the...

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

Joseph Monteyne goes to schools with about 15 others to talk about the war. The kids are super attentive. His own...

After William White Brainard returned home and was discharged from the Air Force in San Antonio [Annotator’s Note: San...

Raymond Eugene Overcash was born in Lanett, Alabama in 1923. He was drafted in 1943. He did his basic training in...

The fighting in Africa was ongoing [Annotator's Note: in March 1943] when Darrell D. Gust was preparing for combat. He...

Kenneth H. Bailey was born in Albany, New York in February 1922. He grew up and went to school in Delmar [Annotator's...

When Robert Swift had gone into the war he was a farm boy. While he was overseas his brother-in-law talked his father...

Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...

Robert Wolff remembers that there were escape attempts all the time. They had to get permission from the “escape...

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