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James J. McDermott was born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania in October 1920. He worked for a brick manufacturing plant and...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

William White Brainard was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1922. He grew up with one brother and two sisters. His...

While at McConnell Airbase, Enrique Cervantes had his PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange] operation audited by a...

Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went on a...

Clayton Kelly Gross recalls getting to England and the bombing going on from there. They were assigned to the 9th Air...

Harley Bridger's crew was sent to Mitchell Field on Long Island, New York. They were assigned a new airplane and they...

In late May 1945, Gerald Auerbach's crew was chosen to become the lead crew in the squadron [Annotator's Note: 881st...

Paul Roach was a city engineer. He was in the reserves for two weeks in the summer. He was taking classes in command...

Frank Buschmeier got seven letters in one day at Stalag Luft IV. One of the men volunteered to read his letters for him...

Donald Albert Carlson was fortunate to be in the service for two and a half years. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill,...

On 7 April [Annotators Note: 1945] the Luftwaffe put up a huge effort consisting of many types of fighters. Richard...

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