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Recalling some of the highlights of his experiences, Harold Shook said it didn't look like the Luftwaffe [Annotator's...

Leon Hirsch enjoyed doing advance theater work for a while but found it not lucrative enough so he took a job as a...

The memory of World War 2 has faded for Paul Wilson. The breakdown of the family unit has caused this to happen along...

In August 1944, Archie Maltbie had a mission against a bridge across the Seine River. Fragments of German units were...

Harold Baumgarten served with the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division during the first wave of attacks on D...

Gatewood led his squadron on his fourth mission. At 1 point during the raid he was all by himself and had to pull up to...

Robert Boeke was traveling in Amsterdam [Annotator's Note: Amsterdam, Holland] for the 75th Anniversary [Annotator's...

It is hard for Robert S. Rugeley to choose his most memorable experience of World War 2. One, is that they were...

Owen Gibb went to boot camp for six weeks in the Canadian Air Force in the snow. Then they went to Saskatchewan [...

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

Ivan Bodis-Wollner was put on trains and taken from Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

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