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Joseph Brannan was changed by the Second World War. He had started college prior to the war, but was not enthusiastic...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fell into his landing craft before landing at one of the American beaches at Normandy about five...

Steve Pisanos got his private pilot’s license. He studied from a booklet he had picked up while visiting a Greek Air...

Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...

Edward J. Manzi’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was seeing a lot of dead bodies. He fought because he was...

Samuel W. Smith remembers his flight engineer telling him that he dropped a screwdriver in the oil chamber. The B-24 [...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was transported by passenger train to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in...

Dan Baker would send patrols out to the German lines. In one instance he sent three men out, but only two came back....

Ryan O'Brien was born in March 1922 in Los Angeles, California. The Great Depression started when he was seven. His dad...

John Rogers recalls that the area they were operating in and out of was Modave, Belgium. Modave was where they lost the...

Herman Molen was born in August 1923 in Greenville, Texas. He was studying to be a minister. He was ordained. When the...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr.'s first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

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