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Paul Hissey remembered when the war ended all the fighter planes were destroyed because they did not want them to fall...

The war ended while Irving Miller was in the hospital. He was discharged on the point system. Everyone talked about the...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] They...

Charlie Lomax was in the Reserves [Annotator's Note: US Naval Reserve] about eight years. That was mostly training one...

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

Russell Van Matre was born in March 1922 in Elsberry, Missouri with two brothers and two sisters. His grandparents were...

In 1983, George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th...

Robert Shoens sent a telegram to his wife in Maine to let her know that he was coming home soon. There were a bunch of...

Lowell Brueland's first combat mission in the Mustang was a piece of cake. He performed escort duty with a flight of...

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

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

William Graham Jameson was born on 29 April 1929 in Rochester, New York. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...

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