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Joseph Hartmann was shipped back to England. They were going to be court-martialed and do their time in England. The...

Edward Tipper enlisted in the Army. All paratroopers enlisted. None were drafted. He wanted to join the paratroopers...

George Warner was told that blackouts were enforced because there might be enemy airplanes in the vicinity, although he...

Richard Henry Hamilton describes the Stalag Luft IV Prison Camp [Annotator's Note: Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo...

For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...

John Langston Harrison, Jr. experienced racial prejudice throughout all of his 23 years in the service. A weaker man...

Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] was told to put on his clothes and was taken out of solitary [...

Joseph Brannan had never ridden on a PT boat [Annotator's Note: Patrol Torpedo boat] prior to his assignment to his...

Robert Heller was flying at an unnerving altitude and had not yet reached his target when his plane was overtaken by...

Dan Baker’s worst combat moment occurred during his first day in battle outside of Strasburg. A German sniper fired at...

Jack Weiss got off his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Columbia (CL-56)] and went on the South Dakota [Annotator's Note:...

Terrell Lavern Pigott sailed home on the the West Point [Annotator's Note: USS West Point (AP-23)], which was a sister...

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