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Donald Albert Carlson enlisted in the Army Air Force [Annotator's Note: in September 1942]. He got on a train from Penn...

It wasn't easy for Martin Baranek to fit into society after the war because his formative years were bereft of...

John Luckadoo and the other aircrews began receiving heavy fire as soon as they reached the enemy coast. The flak was...

Bud Loring went from Santa Maria [Annotator's Note: Army Airfield, Santa Barbara County, California] to Colchester,...

Robert Rans' first impression of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was that it was...

Edward Nickerson flew home from England to Bangor, Maine. He vaguely remembers coming home. His mother met him. His...

On 23 February 1945, R.M. Wilkes crossed the Roer River [Annotator's Note: at Roerdorf, or Rohrdorf, Germany]. Rogers'...

William Pena remembers how readjusting to life with his crippling injury was very difficult. Life without part of his...

Martin J. Anschau was seasick 12 of 13 days returning home on the ship. He could not eat anything. Food smelled bad. He...

Owen Gibb went to boot camp for six weeks in the Canadian Air Force in the snow. Then they went to Saskatchewan [...

Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] was promoted to Corporal...

Floyd Dumas was injured at Salerno when a fragment from a hand grenade hit him. He was patched up and stayed on the...

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