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Leon Hirsch saw his service as a great learning experience. He was given responsibilities greater than any he had...

Irvin Kennedy flew 21 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group, 8th Air...

John Angier explained that the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force] would try to catch the bombers right...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer served in the USAAF as a tail gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers...

Francis Dymnicki would wake up very early in the morning to prepare for a bombing mission. Daylight hours in England...

Frank Dolsen, volunteered for the Army Air Corps, and trained in Boise, Idaho with his crew [Annotator's Note: 349th...

Chester Strunk traveled by foot and rail to reach the Stalag at Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A was near...

He has no memory of VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], but Harold Shook remembered that on...

Herbert Heilbrun packed up his gear and left for home without his crew. Heilbrun decided to take a ship home instead of...

After his discharge, jobs were hard to find, so James Pritchett took advantage of the G.I. Bill and went back to...

George Grugett was on a mission to Trento [Annotator's Note: Trento, Italy]. They were going into the Brenner Pass [...

A month before Virgil Faust was liberated, the prisoners in the camp began hearing the artillery getting closer. Rumors...

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