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The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

After completing training at various bases and trained on various planes, Gerald Auerbach was assigned to Kelly Field [...

Harley Bridger's original crew stayed together the entire war except for the bombardier. He was a young, Jewish boy...

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

Malcolm Hershel Higgins was born in April 1921. He was delivered by his grandfather. His father was a World War 1...

Robert W. McDonald was born in Carlinville, Illinois in January 1924. His father was born when Abraham Lincoln [...

The first time Malcolm Higgins saw a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] he wondered how...

Robert W. McDonald went to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey] for...

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

Robert Rans was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1921. Family life was mostly normal until the war started. He worked...

Donald Dean Paynter went to Rosecrans Field [Annotator's Note: also called St. Joseph Army Airfield, near St. Joseph,...

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