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Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

Dr. Jesse L. Wofford was born in the small, working community of Drew, Mississippi, where his family was in the farming...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp used the G.I. Bill to go to...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany. Once a prisoner of war, he was...

It couldn't have been long afterward, any longer and he would have died of hypothermia, that Ben Epstein reached one of...

After D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Bernard Knese had a 30-...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. flew his final mission on 16 November 1944 [Annotator's Note: McLaurine was bombardier...

Henry Heim was 17 years old when he went to work in the mine with his father. He shoveled coal into a buggy. His father...

Steve Pisanos was on the first Schweinfurt mission during which 60 B-17s were lost. The bombers were escorted by the...

Bernard Baker went to Fort Lewis, Washington [Annotator’s Note: near Lakewood, Washington], for overseas training. He...

Stephen Ananian was a freshman at NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University in New York, New York] as aeronautical...

Enrique Cervantes was highly influenced by his uncle who taught him about life outside of poverty. Simultaneously, he...

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