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Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Jack Rolfson did not like the missions where he had to go behind enemy lines. When he was in the service, the Army...

Glen Jostad found the food to be very meager and poor in the prisoner of war Stalag near Heydekrug, Germany [Annotator'...

Paul James Grubb experienced his worse raid over Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His only wound resulted...

Joel Urice was born in Oklahoma in March 1924. He grew up in a small town. Everything moved slower back then. Urice’s...

Donald Dean Paynter came back, finished school with an engineering degree, and went to work for Shell Oil Company. He...

After they [Annotator's Note: Malcolm Higgins and his fellow newly liberated prisoners of war, or POWs] got through the...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Army Air Forces] went overseas in October 1943 on the Argentina...

[Annotator’s Note: For the first two minutes of the recording, the interviewee is getting prepared for the interview.]...

Vincent Pale was in Philadelphia when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and some friends decided to...

Myron L. Guisewhite was born in 1921 in Avis, Pennsylvania, one of the five children of a New York Central Railroad...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

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