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When he deployed, Ubert Labat was among 14,000 troops on the Queen Mary [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Mary], including a...

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

Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....

His expertise was not required for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6...

[Annotator’s Note: Lloyd Burns was a prisoner of war in Europe.] Lloyd Burns recalls that he was deloused and given new...

Edward Thomas Toole wanted to join the Naval Air Force but he could not make it. The Navy appealed to him more than any...

James Elduff flew during the Korean War [Annotator’s Note: Korean War; 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953]. He received an...

Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...

Walter Ehlers' life didn't end with his military service. He spent 29 years working for the Veterans Administration....

The Halifax [Annotator's Note: Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber] did not carry quite as many bombs as the Lancaster [...

Hillman James Prestridge was born in September 1924 in Cragford, Alabama, a small town of about 400 people. He had one...

Leonard Spivey noted that there was a lot of commotion when they were burrowing through the tunnel. Some of the guys in...

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