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Paul Hissey was sent to Northern Texas for basic training for six weeks. He remembered the terrain to be very flat. He...

Leon Hirsch reported to an inhospitable major general in Wiesbaden, Germany on orders to assist in developing road...

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

John Noack was apparently knocked out momentarily when he was hit. Noack himself does not remember losing consciousness...

After graduating from advanced training, Second Lieutenant Eugene Vaadi was assigned to the 385th Bombardment Group...

When he arrived in Paris, France, Robert Sweatt's escorts introduced him to three young men of the French Resistance...

John Sacks learned about the airplane [Annotator's Note: the completely restored Boeing B-17-E heavy bomber named My...

Carl Smith was born in January 1928 in Pittsburg, Georgia. It was a coal mining town. He had three sisters and four...

When Francis Neilson got back to the United States, the war with Japan was still raging. He had a ten day furlough [...

The training at Tuskegee was rigorous. There was a lot of hazing. Leahr believes that they were trained as good as...

Bernard Peters was born in March 1923 in Oakland, Oregon. He had two older brothers and two younger sisters. His father...

Frank Bostwick was en route back to the United States when the Germans surrendered on 8 May 1945. His air missions over...

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