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

Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...

In June 1942, Virgil Faust went overseas starting from Grand Island, Nebraska and traveling to Bangor, Maine, then to...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

After nine months in a prison, William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17...

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

Chester Brewer flew with the 8th Air Force. His crew was from all over the United States. He flew with the 3rd Division...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Gatewood led his squadron on his fourth mission. At 1 point during the raid he was all by himself and had to pull up to...

Lloyd Geist learned the art of bartering by trading a fifth of whiskey for a BMW [Annotator's Note: Bayerische Motoren...

Chester Strunk had not received mail from home during his last year as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. When...

Henry Burkle remembers that they had to put up all the tents and get a kitchen organized [Annotator’s Note: after...

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