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[Annotator's Note: Curt Simmons served in the Navy in the Armed Guard as a gunner aboard merchant ships in the North...

Herman Molen remembers some pilots had good records and others did not. The lead plane had two engines out [Annotator’s...

After the Battle of the Bulge, Elmer Knudsen was deployed close to the Rhine River and was billeted in a private...

[Annotator's Note: for the first 35 seconds of this segment Rall is speaking German with someone in the room other than...

William Meredith had the option to train to be a pilot, bombardier, or navigator. Meredith was in civil engineering. He...

Joseph Pilcher volunteered for the armed forces during World War 2 because he thought it was his duty; he, like...

Charles Taylor was assigned to the USS Absecon (AVP-23) as the catapult officer, even though he had no training in this...

Stegmeier enlisted because everybody was doing it. There was a draft going on and if you didn't enlist you would be...

Frank Ramsey wanted to be in the Army Air Corps. His uncle had served in the First World War [Annotator's Note: World...

Hillman James Prestridge partook in the biggest operation ever [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Johannes Aalders about the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden,...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator that was shot down over Ploiești, Romania. He says...

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