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After the Holland invasion [Annotator's Note: Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 17 to 25 September 1944] partly...

Herbert Heilbrun is happy he made friends with John, the Tuskegee Airman. Heilbrun has yet to visit The National WWII...

As a replacement aircrewman, Wendell Galbraith was received with open arms. One of the raids in August [Annotator's...

There was a chaplain in the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag XVII-B] who went around in an effort to keep up the morale...

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

They were interrogated in Frankfurt. They were only supposed to tell them name, rank, and serial number. A German...

Robert "Bob" Rickel does not recall the mission to Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany with the 524th...

Lloyd Geist was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in July 1921. His family moved to Houma...

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

Onesi remembers Dick Smith's [Annotator's Note: Onesi's pilot] mother keeping in touch with the crew and their families...

Francis Dymnicki boarded a ship in England right after V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] to...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

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