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Paul Wilson had moved to north Oklahoma City [Annotator's Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] when Pearl Harbor happened [...

Neil Cox made it through the Siegfried Line [Annotator's Note: a series of defensive fortifications roughly paralleling...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

At 0530 in the morning of 16 December 1944, they were shelled until daybreak then the German guns stopped. John M....

Norman Riggsby worked as an MP [Annotator’s Note: military policeman] and as a judge. When they not on motorcycle...

The usual aim points for a bombing mission that Maurice Hackler flew were manufacturing, oil and transportation,...

Leon Waldman’s unit [Annotator’s Note: 840th Bombardment Squadron, 483rd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] they got...

Arthur Spaulding was born in August 1925 in Oxnard, California. Back then, some women, including his mother were sent...

In June 1943, two weeks before his 18th birthday, William M. Barnett was given permission to leave prep school [...

Herbert Heilbrun was not working the day Pearl Harbor occurred [Annotator's Note: on 7 December 1941]. On that Sunday...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga assisted with ground support for the infantry and tank divisions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P...

Robert D. Maxwell was born in October 1920 in western Kansas. With the winds blowing the land away, the family headed...

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