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Darrell Welch did encounter 190s [Annotator's Note: German Focke-Wulf Fw-190 fighter aircraft], which looked a lot like...

There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

James Kemp McLaughlin was born in Charleston, West Virginia in December 1918. He grew up on a small farm and attended...

George Henry Rosenberg [Annotator's Note: with the 721st Bombardment Squadron, 450th Bombardment Group, 47th...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

[Annotator’s Note: There is white noise in the background.] Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal was born in January 1924 in...

[Annotator's Note: William Fili was liberated from a prisoner of war camp in Bucharest, Romania on 23 August 1944.]...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling, seats squeaking, and people in the background throughout this segment.]...

Timothy Mahoney only went on a flight after he did repairs to the radar equipment. The pilots did not like doing those...

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