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Ryan O'Brien was born in March 1922 in Los Angeles, California. The Great Depression started when he was seven. His dad...

Virgil Clayton Moen was trained in gliders in the Army Air Corps. Many guys died in glider crashes because they were...

Richard Candelaria credits the 8th Air Force for never having been turned back on a mission by enemy action. Enemy...

Wallace Jeffery arrived in Scotland and was transported by train to his new camp in England. He stayed there for four...

Gatewood's area was comprised of American POWs. They maintained their ranks and their discipline. Gatewood remembers a...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...

Eugene Henry Gierka arrived in Le Havre [Annotator's Note: Le Havre, France] and went to Rouen [Annotator's Note: Rouen...

Richard Asbury went to Saint-Dizier, France when it was being flooded. He got there expecting to see P-51s [Annotator's...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

John Gibbons has no regrets from his service during the war. He had a very successful career during which he held very...

Edward Grant flew two liberation missions in Hungary. People were being forced to work in ammunition factories making...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to California for preflight school. They were put on a troop train for Santa Ana, California....

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