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Initially training in single engine airplanes with an instructor, Robert Heller liked flying, but was a "little bit...

In 1943, William White Brainard joined the Army Air Corps because he lived close to Morrison Field [Annotator’s Note:...

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

Otis Gatewood's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Armored Division] came...

On 6 February 1945, the prison guards marched Richard Henry Hamilton and the rest of the prisoners out of the camp [...

Edward Field was a navigator and an officer but also enjoyed associating with enlisted men. He discovered that one of...

Robert Rupp was born in 1918 in Aurora, Nebraska. He lived there until he went to college. The worst of the Great...

Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...

The fog in England was so bad that Alfred Pierse Murphy ran into a parked jeep on his return to the base from the PX [...

The training at Tuskegee was rigorous. There was a lot of hazing. Leahr believes that they were trained as good as...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...

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