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M. Edward Melton knew he was going to be drafted. If he volunteered, he would have a better chance to go into the Army...

Samuel W. Smith remembers when the war ended in Europe, bombers were needed in the Pacific. There were 65 crews picked...

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

Freddie Ohr sat down and everybody sat around him to keep him warm. Ohr got up and looked around and realized there was...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew had been to Berlin. It was high time to have an easy mission. The guys were told it was...

John Bache-Wiig, Jr.'s first combat objective was at Philippsbourg, France. On 4 and 5 January [Annotator's Note:...

Robert "Bob" Livingston was born in March 1923 in Far Rockaway, New York during a blizzard. He was not a good student...

After World War 2, William McCowen served in the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953]. Besides a mission that...

By December 1944, Frank Zunno's jump school training was complete. Around Christmas Day 1944, Zunno boarded the Queen...

Frieda Weinreich remembered two girls who ran away from a work camp and ended up coming to the Parschnitz Slave Labor...

Herbert W. Ridyard was let off a truck near Nennig [Annotator's Note: Nennig, Germany] and then advanced toward their...

Donelson Houseman got a ten day leave and went home. After reporting back, he was assigned to Fort Fisher, North...

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