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Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was captured as a prisoner when his plane was shot down by Germans. Perdue was led to a local...

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

Harold Gournay flew out of Italy for 18 or 19 missions [Annotator's Note: Gournay served in the USAAF as a waist gunner...

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

George Beaugh was born in June 1922 in Opelousas, Louisiana. He was one of six siblings. His parents were farmers....

Wallace Jeffery entered service after receipt of his draft notice. He signed up at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. [...

Ben Kuroki has been ever so grateful for the fellow Americans who went to bat for him decades after the war. Their...

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

William McCowen had little interaction with the local population while stationed at a replacement depot outside of...

John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...

Edward Grant flew his first mission in March 1945. He took for granted that he might be shot down. His airfield did not...

Irwin Stovroff was born in Buffalo, New York in August 1922 and remained in Buffalo until he went to college. It was a...

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