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On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Myron L. Guisewhite flew...

Gordon Higgins was born in February 1924 in New Haven, Connecticut, one of two sons who lived with their mother and...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld arrived at Stalag III-B [Annotator's Note: near Fürstenberg, Germany] about 30 miles south of...

In 1949, Herbert W. Ridyard took a job with NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was the forerunner...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

James B. Jones was born in March 1922 in Laurel [Annotator's Note: Laurel, Mississippi]. His father worked for a white...

Irving Becker remembers a funny incident as his most memorable event of the war. It involved some comrades and women at...

Robert Shoens knew that the planes coming towards him were not the much hoped for escort. In the briefing room after...

Norman Cook was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in November 1923. His father was a bookkeeper before the Great...

Bud Olson [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne...

After the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December...

For many years, Gerhard Franzky put the war in the back of his mind. He was more concerned with building a future. He...

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