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Leahr believes that young people should be taught about what men like him went through. The racism and segregation he...

William Colgan served overseas with the 79th Fighter Squadron, 86th Fighter Group, 12th Air Force and flew in P-40s [...

During Operation Varsity [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel, Germany], the glider pilots of one...

Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr. experienced enemy fire returning from a bombing mission to Hamm, Germany on 22 April 1944....

Daniel Samuelson was a gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. He loved the plane, but it had nothing for...

Wallace Jeffery and the 300 or so troops in his unit got together after Paris. [Annotator’s Note: the unit was the...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] did not...

In August 1944, George Beaugh returned to the United States after flying 31 missions on a B-17 [Annotator's Note:...

A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

Steve Pisanos decided to return to base. Fuel was an issue on missions. There were incidents of Spitfire pilots having...

Irwin Stovroff experienced interrogation by the Germans after his capture. The enemy thought the American airman knew...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

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