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Barney Old Coyote started flying in December 1943. After he completed his missions, he was able to wait around for his...

Paul Maymon was born in June 1920 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked with a fabric company until it...

Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

Darrell Welch is a fifth generation Texan born in Center City, Texas [Annotator's Note: in March 1918]. He moved West...

Albert Porche learned to take Army life as it came. He was in Jackson, Mississippi after his enlistment. People did not...

Shiyuza Hayashi and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 100th Infantry Battalion] experienced a lot of gunfire and...

[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and escaping from a prisoner of war camp] Olin Pickens and a fellow prisoner,...

Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...

When Edward LaPorta landed in Oran all he could see was the German fortress which had two giant spotlights shining out...

Charles Coolidge went into Anzio during the day then started moving that night for a planned attack the next morning....

Jim Stumpfa did not suffer during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic...

Edgar De Pue Osgood was not shot up on any of his missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...

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