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Donald E. Casey was captured by German soldiers [Annotator’s Note: after his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

James Harvard London shipped out of Southampton [Annotator's Note: Southampton, England] on the Belgian ship...

Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec was so wrapped up in her schooling [Annotator's Note: in a combined high...

In early 1944, William Larson got orders overseas. He had gotten married just a few weeks before. He landed in England...

Curtis Renner was born in Danielsville, Pennsylvania in February 1921. He was drafted into service in July 1942 and...

In June 1943, nearing the end of Maxwell Nelson’s deferment, he decided to join the US Merchant Marine and was sent to...

Wilbur Thomas was assigned to supervise and maintain all the utilities including the pipeline, water, electricity, and...

Lynn Compton remembers the death of Robert Kennedy. He jumped into his car to go to the DA's office because he knew it...

Jack Sanders took off unusually early on the day of the Normandy invasion [Annotator’s Note: 6 June 1944]. It was...

Guy Stern had come to Saint Louis, Missouri in 1937 when he was 15 years old to escape Nazi Germany. He tried, but...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Roy Creek remembers the chaos at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

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