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George W. Bachmann, Junior was born in 1925 in Akron, Ohio and was raised there with one brother and two sisters. His...

Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

Gerhard Franzky remembers Leipzig before the war as being a very historical city with very old opera houses and...

Peter Du Pre went to visit his sister in Fort Scott, Kansas. He spent a week with his sister before returning to New...

After Gross-Gerau [Annotator’s Note: Gross-Gerau, Germany], Basil C. Hoehn and his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 91st...

Kenneth Beckman was sent back to the United States in October 1945. He describes his life as moving from one base to...

Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...

Daniel Samuelson enlisted in the Army Air Corps and went to Texas for basic training. In high school, he did alright...

[Annotator's Note: There is background noise throughout this clip.] Jack Sinise had heard about the B-17 [Annotator's...

Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...

The racism James B. Jones experienced was bad. He thought it was worse for northerners who went to the south. In 1935...

The French were happy that Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads and American forces were in France. [Annotator's Note: Rhoads was in...

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