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In late October 1944, while flying a combat mission, Walter Douglas witnessed an air collision. Two B-17s [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was marched from Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland to Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany...

Norman Johnson was born on Staten Island, New York on 16 January 1925. His father was an electrician. In the afternoons...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

Everyone in the outfit had great respect for Gavin [Annotators Note: Major General James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin,...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Bernard Brown was born in Portland, Oregon in 1924 and moved to Salem, Oregon with his family when he was 13 years old...

Edward Nacey went to combat crew training with a brand-new crew for the B-24 Liberator [Annotator's Note: Consolidated...

Leonard Spivey was hanging in his parachute and it was cold. Spivey was not uncomfortable because he thinks he had a...

Jimmy Doi encountered Italian fascists at San Terenzo. San Terenzo was their last big battle. They were down in a gully...

Joseph Medicine Crow had an uncle known to the Crow people as White Buffalo Turns Around. He received a new name from...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck was born in Detroit, Michigan in June 1922. He grew up there. He had two brothers and two sisters...

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