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Mary Frances Dorothy Wood was still in college and was delighted when the war ended in Europe. It was terrible to learn...

Barbara Heming obtained her MBA and got a job in wealth management on Wall Street. The bank she worked for is one of...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was wounded in a tank battle near Jülich, Germany on 25 February 1945.] His hands were...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a buzzing in the background throughout this clip.] Justus Rosenberg [Annotator’s Note: a...

James McDermott would get barley soup once in a while from the Germans [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in...

The English were incredibly grateful for the American presence. Robert Shoens and his crew stuck together when they got...

Addy Melancon was sent overseas to England to join the 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Armored Division. He...

Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

Chester Brewer was sent to Las Vegas, Nevada and fired every gun from BB guns [Annotator's Note: air gun that fires...

The twenty-first and the twenty-second missions stick out in James Siracuse's mind. On the twenty-first mission,...

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