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On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

Munich had a lot of hits because the railroad yards were in the middle of the city. There was a lot of damage from...

Irvin Kennedy was born and raised in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana] and...

Charles Taylor's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was able to take out a German submarine. He saw...

Phoutrides took part in the Normandy invasion. He knew what was happening but couldn't understand the enormity of the...

Gilbert Shawn was not shipped to basic training. Instead, he went to an air field in Kentucky as a cadet. Shawn took a...

The training also helped Lyle Bouck. It was new to all of them. The purpose of an I...

John Scott Campbell did several different jobs over time. He was a gunner on the 20mm gun [Annotator's Note: Oerlikon...

When John Arch McGill arrived in California, he didn't know much about what he would be doing. He learned that each...

When the division [Annotator's Note: 17th Airborne Division] broke up, Robert Eshback was sent to the 101st [Annotator'...

While in Italy, Mort Walker had heard about the holocaust but did not know much about it. It was not until later that...

Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group in Europe]...

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