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Woods did well in school. He could have gone on to any of the advanced training schools but he volunteered to go out as...

Thomas Eakes had basic training at Ellington Field [Annotator's Note: now Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base] in...

William Kracov [Annotator's Note: as a scout for heavy weapons Company M, 3rd Battalion, 232nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd...

Donald Bryan took off on 140 missions but only completed 138 of them. The bombers aborted on two of them because of...

When Elizabeth Gibbens completed basic training, she was sent to Camp Shanks, New York. She found it exciting to get...

Lloyd Burns remarks on the reputation of the B-26s [Annotator's Note: Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber]. They were...

Ernest Gross was brought to a sanatorium to recuperate. One of his brothers found him, and Gross was both happy and sad...

Edgar R. "Ross" Forman was born in October 1923 in Camden, New Jersey, and would serve with the 319th Engineer Combat...

Freddie Ohr made a dozen passes over the airfield. They went up to provide cover when the top flight went down. Finally...

One day in October 1942, when Martin Baranek was 12 years old and the SS [Annotator's Note: Schutzstaffel; German...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with Vernon Leopold describing some of the men he served with in the I...

Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...

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