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Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...

To Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr., Colonel Shower [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Colonel Albert J. Shower] as an...

Charles Childs was lucky to graduate [Annotator's Note: in 1938]. He had some friends going to college and they needed...

Norris Waddill returned to Texas after the war. He spent three years touring the country before he settled down and got...

Wayne Peer anticipated being drafted. The armed forces had few restrictions to defer service. Peer was inducted at Fort...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner remembers when he was playing with an older child who was the son of a local lawyer. The child's...

Onesi never returned to England to see his old base. He has no desire to go back, that chapter of his life is over. He...

Kelly Kuwayama landed in Marseilles, France and it was rainy and miserable. When they hit combat in France, it was...

Walter Trauner remembers the people were nice. They were taken over by the Nazis. He had cousins who were in the German...

After D-Day, Clyde East and the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron began to work in a rather routine fashion. The...

In Brussels, Belgium, Joseph Pilcher was surprised to run into his former typing teacher from Lafayette High School [...

Clayton Kelly Gross does not recall if the Messerschmitt he shot down off of the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

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