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Cary Salter was born in December 1921 near Macon, Mississippi. His father was a country doctor. They lived seven miles...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. landed in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers, Algeria] in North Africa and was billeted [...

Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...

Eugene W. Chambers enlisted in the Air Force and was called up on 27 January 1943. He took a train to Cincinnati [...

Mack Fitzgerald was from Georgia and he enlisted in the Army Air Force. After training as a B-24 Liberator flight...

In late May 1945, Gerald Auerbach's crew was chosen to become the lead crew in the squadron [Annotator's Note: 881st...

John Stanley Lee Swarts' most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his crew did not return from a mission. He...

[Annotator’s Notes: Lewis Thomas Easterling, a fighter pilot in the 365th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group, 9th...

Frank Buschmeier got seven letters in one day at Stalag Luft IV. One of the men volunteered to read his letters for him...

Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...

Glen Jostad was first held in a German prisoner of war camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug, Germany,...

Jack Buckner says the biggest problem with Army life is the boredom. They played baseball and card games. On a day off...

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