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One morning around 1 May 1945, Paul Bosworth woke up to the smell of coffee which was unusual. He woke up Byron [...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. experienced racial prejudice throughout all of his 23 years in the service. A weaker man...

Leonard Spivey was at the airfield for a few days. They were at the airfield on V-E Day. All hell was breaking loose on...

Darrel D. Gust was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in November 1921. His mother died when he was 11 years old, and, at...

On 9 April [Annotator's Note: 9 April 1945], Russian shock troops burst into the hospital where Wendell Galbraith was a...

Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII, in Moosburg, Germany] was a consolidation of prisoners from all over. When...

Because of his involvement in the war, Edward Grant does not feel like The National WWII Museum is for him. He believes...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that the number three engine burned through fuel lines to the number four engine. Their plane...

John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...

They went aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in New York. The ship was full. Some of the men had been waiting aboard for a...

Floyd Horne signed up [Annotator's Note: for the US Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet Program] early enough that when he...

[Annotator's Note: Audio is not good throughout this clip.] Marvin Raymond Graham had no expectations of what flight...

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