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On 13 September 1944 John Sacks flew a mission to bomb an I.G. Farben refinery manufacturing synthetic fuel. The plant...

Melvin Linkous and his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] were...

Cary Salter was in a dogfight when his wing was hit. It flipped the plane over. He went to pull out and nothing...

Every morning, Carl Light and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored...

Walter Bala enjoyed going to his bomb group [Annotator's Note: Bala was a member of the 732nd Bombardment Squadron,...

Around 1 or 2 January 1945, Warren Bowersox and the 274th Infantry Regiment [Annotator’s Note: of the 70th Infantry...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew were the oldest and most experienced after three missions. Buschmeier and his crew flew...

Ennis C. Warren finished one day before the crew did [Annotator’s Note: Warren was flight engineer on a Boeing B-17...

The bombings started getting hectic. By then, Burt Richard Sadler was 15 years old and had joined the local Boy's...

Fred Whitaker was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His family lived in a working-class community. His maternal...

The Beetle Bailey strip was heavily influenced by Mort Walker's time in the Army during World War 2 and many of his...

The Red Cross came in to the prison camp and Dominick Sgobbo was treated for dysentery. His buddies had been taking...

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