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In 1949, Robert Haffner helped establish the Detroit Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association and served as...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in August 1925. They lived in a coaling town named Amend [...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

[Annotator's Note: George Roberts served in the USAAF as a radio operator and gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

After they [Annotator's Note: Malcolm Higgins and his fellow newly liberated prisoners of war, or POWs] got through the...

John W. Towle was born in June 1921 in Sequoyah Hills. Towle's family moved to a dairy farm in Bearden when he was...

Baynham grew up during the Great Depression but doesn't recall life being too bad. After graduating from high school he...

Erico J. Catalano did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. He went to work in a slipper factory in Florida with his...

John J. Connelly was born in Newark, New Jersey in January 1925 as the youngest in a family of eight children and grew...

Baynham was based at Tibenham, England where there were numerous airfields that were three or four miles apart. Every...

Erico J. Catalano's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was assigned to the machine shop. He served...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

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