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Richard Candelaria thinks it is a shame that the American public did not get to see their 8th Air Force. They were able...

Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

David Paul Spencer heard about the end of the war through the paper. Spencer remembers that he had to go through...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Wold fought in the Battle of Struth, Thuringia, Germany on 7 April 1945.] When the German...

John T. Fallon ended up in Germany [Annotator's Note: with the Company G, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment...

When Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. received his commission and wings from the Army Air Corps in June 1944, his mother and...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp served in the Army as as an officer in the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th...

Joseph Motil was deferred for six months and then went into the service on 22 January 1942. Motil was born on 24 July...

Wendell Galbraith and his unit [Annotator's Note: 782nd Bombardment Squadron, 465th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]...

Cary Salter did not dread going overseas. He was in a group with a good bunch of guys. A lot of them ended up being...

John Arthur Stege was born in Los Angeles, California in October 1920. The Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the...

Walter Sapp had been in his foxhole for eight days. He could not stand or walk. Two men lifted him out and he woke up...

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