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Joel Urice was a leading NCO [Annotator's Note: noncommissioned officer] on the troop carrier. It took 13 days to get...

Norris Waddill crossed the Rhine River about a month after Christmas [Annotator's Note: in early 1945]. Engineers were...

Joseph Armanini tells a story about how the tail of a B-17 [Annotators Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

Robert Rupp was surprised by the atomic bomb drops on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

For the invasion [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944], Melbourne Sanford...

Thomas Creekmore was born in 1923 [Annotator's Note: December 1923] in Portsmouth, Virginia and grew up during the...

Edward Nacey flew a lot of missions to bomb bridges, railroad yards, and marshaling yards. Most of his missions were...

Curtis Renner was in an air rescue squadron [Annotator’s Note: attached at times to the Ninth Air Force] to rescue...

At first, Paluch was attached to the 1st Army and was then transferred to the 3rd Army. When they got to the Hurtgen...

Frank Buschmeier recalls that the March 6th Berlin raid was terrible. The flak was noted for its intensity on that raid...

Harold Watters [Annotator's Note: with the 355th Engineer General Service Regiment] only ever talked to Germans in...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond A. Reed served with his youngest brother during the war.] They were separated during...

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