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Recalling some of his more interesting operational experiences, Donald Strait talked about one when he was escorting B-...

During the assault on the port city of Cherbourg, France, John Witmeyer fought through to the end of town after door to...

Delbert Frank Wombacher was born in Lawrence, Nebraska on a farm [Annotator's Note: in October 1918]. He grew during...

From Carentan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Carentan, 10 to 14 June 1944, Carentan, France], Bradford Clark Freeman...

Kalil and the others were not prepared while training in Louisiana. They did not have any of the equipment they would...

Monty Joe Boitnott thought the strategy was ill advised at Kasserine Pass because they knew the enemy was coming. They...

Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads went across the channel [Annotator's Note: English Channel] on an LCI [Annotator's Note:...

Dave Fleischer [Annotator's Note: serving with the 394th Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force] got...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was drafted into the Army in December 1942.] Squire was given a week off and then went...

They went aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in New York. The ship was full. Some of the men had been waiting aboard for a...

The war changed Richard Field. Field was used to being away from home but nothing prepared him for combat. After he...

Norman Johnson was on a 45 day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] and by the...

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