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Wayne Pierce fought with General Gavin in Normandy. He and the airborne found him to be a god. In terms of Pierce’s...

Arnol Sellars went overseas to Italy to join a fighter squadron. When he got there, he had a lot more time on the P-47...

Harold Roed and his unit [Annotator's Note: 515th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 13th Airborne Division] were alerted to...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

[Annotator's Note: Carmen Scoppa is in a hospital and voices can be heard in the background throughout the interview...

Norman Alden Briggs was born in November 1925 in Jennings [Annotator's Note: Jennings, Louisiana]. He had three...

Dominick Sgobbo remembered taking prisoners back to headquarters and having to prevent non-combatants from mistreating...

Before and during to World War 2, Adolf Adam's father worked as a mechanic in a neighboring town and was able to...

Melvin Dahlberg and the 517th Parachute Regiment Combat Team [Annotator's Note: 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment] went...

Charles Fitts, Jr. had stashed a watch in the one place that the Germans did not search. It was an automatic wristwatch...

Myron L. Guisewhite was sent back to Europe with the occupation Army. Assigned to France, he became involved with the...

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