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An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

Mason Dorsey's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the day he got knocked out by a German Panzerfaust [...

They were putting the gas into the vehicles that were selected to make the rest of the trip. Lyle Bouck recalled seeing...

Jack Madden was in Europe when the war ended. He was delighted. He had not followed the course of the war too closely...

On 25 December 1944, Christmas Day, J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr., boarded the vessel that would take him to the European...

Roy Creek recalls a misunderstanding surrounding Bob Ray [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity] and the 325 [...

When Donald Beeghly’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 142nd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (mobile)] arrived in...

Walter Sapp was fortunate to have excellent hearing. He could hear mortars coming down. The way a mortar explodes, if...

When the Germans entered Johannes Aalders’ city [Annotator’s Note: Apeldoorn, Netherlands], they occupied his family’s...

Adolf Adam remembers that the propaganda from the Nazi party was on the radio all the time. He remarks that people were...

Adolph Edward Asher arrived in France and was assigned to a new outfit [Annotator's Note: unable to identify]. He had...

Earl Colson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November 1924. He had two brothers. His dad was a caretaker at the...

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