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Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

At one time in North Africa there was a big tank battle going on. Carl Peterson was up in the mountains and could see...

When the American troops landed in Sicily, Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert recalls receiving heavy fire from the...

The war in Europe ended for Clifford Smith, but he soon heard his division [Annotator's Note: at this time, Smith was...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

When it was time to go overseas, Timothy Mahoney was put with a combat crew and flown to Fort Lauderdale [Annotator's...

Eugene Dorsey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German POW [Annotator’s Note: prisoner of war] fell...

Gowan Duffy was stationed in Czechoslovakia [Annotator’s Note: for occupation duty after the war]. Duffy picked up a...

William Blanckenburg was met by a lieutenant colonel who knew that Blanckenburg was married and was an older fellow....

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces out of Naples, Italy] had something strange...

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