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In 1944, they came out with water injection which added 200 horsepower. Bryan’s planes did not have it and he was a...

Julian Siebert was born in Westmoreland, Kansas in 1923. Growing up during the 1930s, he saw that everyone was hard up...

Heywood Mason was born in August 1925 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: on Susina Plantation near Beachton, Georgia], where...

Stewart Hihn's [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] clothing was inadequate....

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany and taken prisoner. On 4 April 1945,...

After being promoted to captain and finishing his last bombing mission, Jack Buckner left his group [Annotator's Note:...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. and the others heard the guns approaching the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in...

A year after enlisting as a private Robert Christie graduated from OCS [Annotators Note: Officer Candidate School] with...

William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. His family moved around frequently because his father worked...

Only five men survived from the fight on the hilltop. It was the first time Charles Scheffel was wounded. A German had...

Gerard Dillon only had one situation where someone refused to jump. They were going to make a practice jump in France....

Guy Stern was born Guenther Stern in Hildesheim, Germany in January 1922. He lived in Hildesheim until he left for the...

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