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Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...

Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

John Gibbons met his future wife in Kansas before deploying overseas. Gibbons acted as the copilot for the flight...

After Paul James Grubb returned home on a transport [Annotator's Note: after completing 50 missions in Europe as a tail...

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....

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was in aviation cadet training when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

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

After being promoted to captain and finishing his last bombing mission, Jack Buckner left his group [Annotator's Note:...

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

Harley Bridger's original crew stayed together the entire war except for the bombardier. He was a young, Jewish boy...

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