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Donald Bryan’s last kill was an Arado234. Years later it was discovered that the German pilot flying that plane was on...

Raymond Mason remembers the guys in his battalion were good guys. They were well-trained. They kept seeing Germans. His...

Lawrence Angst was promoted to the battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd...

Victor Fienup [Annotator's Note: an American prisoner of war] was taken to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: in Sagan...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was sent to basic training anticipating that he would join the Air Corps. Instead he...

Robert W. "Doby" Gibson left Camp Myles Standish in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] on the troop ship...

Vernon Schmidt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the day in February 1945 when he lost his three friends....

James Livaudais knew he had really seen combat after the battle at La Fiere and the Merderet crossing. He thought at...

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

Hans Siverts went into Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] a couple of days after it was liberated. He took a day...

There were a lot of submarine threats on Nicholas J. Zuras' transatlantic journey to Plymouth, England, where he stayed...

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