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Irwin Stovroff was based in Shipdham Airfield outside of Norwich, England. Norwich was the central point for many of...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout the video.] William White Brainard [Annotator's Note:...

The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...

Hawk estimates that his unit captured around 500 German troops after the engagement for which he was awarded the Medal...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to Lincoln, Nebraska to pick up his combat crew. When he got there, he ran into his friend...

The war changed Bernard Smith's life like it changed everybody's. It is a different world. Up until 1945, and the...

Robert "Bob" Rickel had to kick a bomb out of the bomb bay from a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child at the time of the war] arrived in Marseilles [Annotator's...

James "Jim" L. Brooks was born in January 1921 in Vinton, Virginia which was a rural area. Though his family lived on a...

Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Lombardo was born in Calabria in Southern Italy in 1919. He grew up there until the age of...

When Francis Resta’s platoon [Annotator's Note: Resta served in the weapons platoon of Company B, 1st Battalion, 407th...

John Sacks learned about the airplane [Annotator's Note: the completely restored Boeing B-17-E heavy bomber named My...

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