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William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

Francis Neilson recalled one mission when one of their engines had gone out over the Adriatic Sea. When the second...

[Annotator's Note: William Nesser served aboard the SS Kalliopi in Russia where they loaded lumber for England.] They...

Robert Bueker [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] and the men in the camp...

Cecil N. Duck served in the Navy until 1949, then worked for a company in Pensacola, Florida before enlisting in the...

Edward Tipper and the troops of the 101st Airborne were very confident about jumping into France. Their training was...

Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. and Caudill [Annotator's Note: unsure of spelling, but this was Hazard's Sergeant] went to Le...

In the last weeks of the war, Bernard Brown, and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 410th Infantry...

Jack A. Smithson deployed overseas on the USS George Washington [Annotator's Note: USAT George Washington] a luxury...

Frank Fontana went into Holland then Belgium. He was a supply sergeant for the whole outfit [Annotator's Note: 93rd...

On the twelfth day of combat, Don Carter's squad [Annotator's Note: in Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th...

Samuel W. Smith got the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] up to top speed and buzzed...

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