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Herman Molen remembers when they found out they were free. [Annotator’s Note: Molen and others were liberated from a...

Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla was born in the coal mining town of Kingston, Pennsylvania in January 1924. Pohorilla...

Donald Albert Carlson did a lot of training and was assigned an airplane and a crew [Annotator's Note: in preparation...

Jack Buckner says the biggest problem with Army life is the boredom. They played baseball and card games. On a day off...

Omer Van Huylenbrouck went on his first combat mission with a different crew. It was nothing exciting. [Annotator's...

Marvin Raymond Edwards' most memorable experience of the war was the horrible treatment by the Germans and their cold-...

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

Carl Platkin remembers they could not do anything about the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. They...

Paul James Grubb was assigned to bombing runs over the Alps into France after a few days [Annotator's Note: he had...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

James McDermott says that the Germans did not treat them badly. If you were taken by the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note:...

Donald Dean Paynter was born in Madison, Wisconsin in August 1922. His brother was in World War 2 as well. His father...

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