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Edgar A. Grabhorn was born in 1924 in Annapolis [Annotator's Note: Annapolis, Maryland]. The Depression [Annotator's...

Being off of oxygen, you go into hypoxia after three minutes. Joseph O'Donnell pulled his ripcord right away and went...

The worst part of the mission to Bremen for George Roberts was the fighters. Roberts operated his gun from the radio...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

Frank Finklang quickly learned from the "old timers" to hold onto K-rations [Annotator's Note: individual daily combat...

Edward Grant flew two liberation missions in Hungary. People were being forced to work in ammunition factories making...

[Annotator's Note: Bernard Smith flew his final five missions with "bastard" crews or crews made of men who did not...

Joel Urice vividly remembers the belongings of the crews who did not make it back from Hamburg [Annotator’s Note:...

Paul Bosworth was in Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A, Moosburg, Germany] until he was liberated. The camp was...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew dropped food...

[Annotator’s Note: There is white noise in the background throughout the segment.] When he went into service, Theodore...

Albert Porche began his typical day as a fighter armorer by having breakfast and then going to look on the board where...

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