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Henry Langrehr had some near misses while evading recapture [Annotator's Note: after escaping from a prisoner of war...

J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was in a hospital recovering from wounds when he learned about the end of war in Europe. He was...

Hartsel Ross's most memorable experience of World War 2 was losing his convoy in fog while sailing in the North Sea. He...

James Siracuse could hear the ammunition train he bombed exploding in the distance. Every time there was an explosion...

For most of George Beaugh's missions his crew would fly at 25,000 to 27,000 feet. On one mission they flew at 32,000...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Dean Paynter arrived England around the middle of June 1944]. They started training there. He...

Traveling on, Vernon Breen says he thinks the next town they approached was Achensee {Annotator's Note: assume he is...

Frederick Freeman was born in Saint Louis County in Kirkwood [Annotator's Note: Kirkwood, Missouri] in May 1925. His...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

They [Annotator's Note: Raymond Zager and his fellow soldiers of the 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st Infantry Division]...

Lawrence Angst said that the Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: youth organization of the Nazi Party] were radical and a...

Because Richard Frothingham didn't get along with his stepmother, he had some problems returning to civilian life, but...

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