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Louis Cardenas was born in April 1919 in San Antonio, Texas. His father had a good job in the civil service. He was not...

Robert A. Stachel was born in June 1924 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Growing up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the...

Onesi recalls his time in the prisoner of war (POW) camps. If they were not sergeants, they would have been better off...

Jack Rolfson did not like the missions where he had to go behind enemy lines. When he was in the service, the Army...

A German officer who could speak English took Joseph O'Donnell into a barn. The officer started asking him questions....

Irving Baum flew seven combat missions [Annotator's Note: as a bombardier with the 407th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator'...

Norris Morvant’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was visiting places in England and France. As a young person...

Edward Field had his most memorable experience with the crash of his plane [Annotator's Note: after his plane was shot...

There were roughly 36 planes in each mission from the base [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Thurleigh in Thurleigh,...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

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