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Along with his fellow refugees, Robert Sweatt was taken under guard to London, England. A bombardier from his squadron...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air...

Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: the 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional...

Henry Heim was born in April 1921 in Trevorton, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers and two sisters. He was the oldest...

John Arch McGill says the war was a terrible waste, in terms of loss of human life, of destruction to communities, and...

Stephen Ananian was born in December 1922 in Manhattan, New York City [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five...

Still dealing with pneumonia, George E. Budlong and his unit boarded forty and eights [Annotator's Note: 40 and eight...

They went aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in New York. The ship was full. Some of the men had been waiting aboard for a...

Enrique Cervantes was born in Fresno, California in October 1923. He grew up in severe poverty and experienced bigotry...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. and the others heard the guns approaching the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in...

Bernard Baker was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, in February 1924. He grew up with nine siblings. An older...

Marvin Raymond Edwards [Annotator's Note: with the 856th Bombardment Squadron, 492nd Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...

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