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Henry Burkle’s wife’s father was trying to raise chickens. One of the things Burkle did during the Depression [...

Robert W. McDonald was born in Carlinville, Illinois in January 1924. His father was born when Abraham Lincoln [...

Robert "Bob" Rickel was born in Toledo, Ohio in July 1923. Rickel's father came to the United States from Poland....

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

As they traveled through Germany [Annotator's Note: during his time spent as a prisoner of war (POW), Onesi remembers...

The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...

Vincent Losada first mission was on 3 January 1945 to Pfarghium [Annotator's Note: Pforzheim, Germany]. He thought it...

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

Joseph O'Donnell was told he was going overseas by Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...

The night when Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: as a prisoner of war] got to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: in Sagan...

Enrique Cervantes recounts how at SAC [Annotator's Note: Strategic Air Command] headquarters he was asked to accompany...

There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

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