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[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with an extremely close shot of Jack Sinise's face and he is mid-sentence talking...

Walter Bala was born Walter Baloski in September 1923 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Polish...

Frank Buschmeier feels like he owes his life to the men who flew the plane and he owes his life to the durability of...

Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

Robert "Bob" Rickel fought in World War 2 to defend the United States. He fought because all his other friends fought...

They [Annotator's Note: John Sacks and his fellow newly liberated prisoners from Stalag Luft I] were flown to an...

Gale Ammerman went to England just after Christmas 1943. He went to Scotland first. He about froze to death even...

Thomas Creekmore did what they told him [Annotator's Note: when Creekmore was drafted January 1943]. He told his wife...

Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...

Assigned as a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] pilot, Eben Smith arrived first in...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. was a detachment commander stationed 100 miles above the Arctic Circle in the late 1950s...

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