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William Larson does not know what will be remembered about his military service. It is far behind him now that he...

Ennis C. Warren completed his missions [Annotator’s Note: Warren was flight engineer on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

From Nebraska they flew to Bangor, Maine. There were 36 planes that flew out of Maine to go overseas. They were...

Due to a pilot shortage, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Leahr got quite a bit of mail from home. Mail was important to him. He had three brothers in the service. One brother...

John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, attached to the 504th...

During the battle in the Parroy Forest in eastern France, John Witmeyer had two Sherman tanks at his disposal to break...

Joseph Motil heard artillery passing overhead. All of a sudden he heard incoming fire. The next shell came a little...

When Clarence Anderson returned from R and R [Annotator's Note: rest and relaxation or recuperation] he was ordered to...

When Harry Bell and the other prisoners arrived [Annotator's Note: at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany] they were...

Leonard Jindra lost friends at the point of a German ambush [Annotator's Note: on 10 June 1944 while serving as an...

Mala [Annotator's Note: née Gerstner] Geldner reached the United States by airplane [Annotator's Note: in 1952]. There...

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