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Donald Evans docked in Mers-el-Kebir [Annotator's Note: Mers-el-Kébir, Oran, Algeria] in North Africa. They were told...

Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

Herbert W. Ridyard was born in July 1925 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He lived a very basic life when growing up. There...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski’s parents were patriotic. Poland was a newly independent country and they learned in school that...

In January 1944 the weather was good, and Carl Koone said Allied airplanes could be seen all over Europe "all day,...

Vincent Losada first mission was on 3 January 1945 to Pfarghium [Annotator's Note: Pforzheim, Germany]. He thought it...

Lyle Bouck did not meet many civilians in Belgium. Someone higher up had gone through the towns and villages and...

After the war, Earl Flanagan worked for the Military Government because of his ability to speak French. Only two months...

[Annotators Note: Warren Schmitt was a forward observer in Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion.]...

Otto Kirkpatrick thought England was nice. The English welcomed them. It was another culture. He had flown to London [...

Mack Fitzgerald was a Georgian who enlisted in the Army Air Force after the Pearl Harbor attack. He was trained as a...

J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was born in December 1919 and grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had one older brother and...

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