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Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...

While serving at Tinker Field near Oklahoma City [Annotator's Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma], Edward Field had a...

Emory Maurice Ornelles was sent to Camp Wolters [Annotator's Note: later Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells, Texas] for...

Walter Trauner’s father was a master baker. He made cakes with real cream, and pastries and donuts. Trauner worked in...

Alfred Pierse Murphy's most memorable experience was when six planes from his squadron [Annotator's Note: 322nd...

The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...

Richard Henry Hamilton was discharged on 29 October 1945 and used the G.I. Bill to attend the Fannie Farmer's School of...

Joseph Alter first used his personal weapon on a patrol. He was a reconnaissance officer for his battalion [Annotator's...

In 1940, Manfred Bahman joined the Junior Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: a youth organization of the Nazi Party for...

John Kerner was the head of a group of soldiers and were reviewed by Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: US Army General...

As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...

Onesi recalls the aircraft flying in a very tight V formation to protect each other. They bombed their targets during...

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