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Vernon Grimes has lost two wives since the war, but never cried over them, despite loving them dearly. He believes his...

On his return to the United States, Maurice Hackler was stationed at Camp Chaffe, Arkansas. He recieved a 30 day...

Frank Ramsey wanted to be in the Army Air Corps. His uncle had served in the First World War [Annotator's Note: World...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. was accepted into pilot school [Annotator's Note: after having been drafted and the accepted...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

Asked to describe his worst mission, Carl Koone recalled a long one that started normal and had proceeded on course...

Gilbert S. Shawn was born in 1921 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He grew up in Manhattan [...

Robert Bueker [Annotator's Note: while a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany] and the men in the camp...

McKee slept in the Frenchman's hayloft over night and suffered from his wounded back [Annotators Note: after bailing...

When Donald Bryan was going to junior college the US was paying for pilot training [Annotator’s Note: the Civilian...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne was stationed at Royal Air Force Station Great Dunmow, or RAF Great Dunmow, Little...

The war made James Eyre Wainwright grow up. He was disappointed to have just missed out on the last mission [Annotator'...

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