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In late January or early February [Annotator’s Note: late January or early February 1945] the Battle of the Bulge ended...

When tunneling Tom, Dick, and Harry [Annotator's Note: Tom, Dick, and Harry were the codenames for the tunnels being...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was a pilot during the Berlin Airlift in Germany.] The first time he landed, the door...

Otto Kirkpatrick talked with some of the guys about how the war affected them after Germany surrendered. Some of them...

Being off of oxygen, you go into hypoxia after three minutes. Joseph O'Donnell pulled his ripcord right away and went...

Oscar Johnson was in Moosburg until General Patton came in and rescued them. It was quite a day. They could see shells...

Earl Forstall remembers another time a plane came back with a lot of hits. The right wing had taken a direct hit. He...

Jack Rolfson had a roommate who would find coal to warm their pot belly stove. He was a mathematician and was always...

John Arthur Stege briefly used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

After the war, Edward Field was given the task of flying ground troops home via France and North Africa. He was later...

In his discussion of his first tour of duty, Kenneth Beckman shares an anecdote about his 25th mission. [Annotator's...

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