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Ralph F. Lafferty believes his training maneuvers went well. They simulated battle across a mountain pass around Camp...

Edward LaPorta does not recall the date he was captured at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. He believes that the reason...

Thomas Michael Holt was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] in the same camp [Annotator's Note: Oflag XIII-B near...

Frank Finklang was put with experienced crews for nine missions, and then his original crew was reformed to fly their...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Harold Ashton enjoyed his time in Morocco. The airfields were good, and he would patrol around the Bay of Biscay [...

After defeating the enemy in Sicily [Annotator’s Note: Sicily, Italy], Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th...

Darrell Welch was assigned to the 1st Fighter Group [Annotator's Note: 27th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group]. There...

Edgar De Pue Osgood and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 111 (VPB-111)] were in Florida when...

Freddie Ohr came running out of the wave and he did not see the boat anymore. He made two or three passes that low....

[Annotator's Note: Charles McGee served in the USAAF as a fighter pilot with the 302nd Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter...

Fred Topel was born in May 1922 in Minneapolis [Annotator's Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota] but grew up in Golden Valley...

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