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Enrique Cervantes flew about 25 missions over Europe. Although he classified those missions as uneventful, they were...

Leon Hirsch enjoyed doing advance theater work for a while but found it not lucrative enough so he took a job as a...

John Paul returned home on a 14 day boat trip to Southampton [Annotator's Note: Southampton, New York]. His original...

The drop zone for Operation Varsity was near Wessel, Germany, and James Pritchett described how General Montgomery's [...

Due to a pilot shortage, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Loevsky's motivation for joining the service was that he felt that the treatment of the Jews in Europe, and by Hitler...

Thomas Creekmore went overseas [Annotator's Note: in 1945], and he was an eager beaver. His pilot [Annotator's Note: in...

Olen Grant spent Christmas 1943 in a prison camp. For Grant, the holidays were just like any other day. Some of the...

John T. "Jack" Race was born Crystal Lake, Pennsylvania in May 1921. He grew up there. His father was a carpenter and a...

Monroe S. Wolyn ended up flat on the floor of the plane. He heard a loud bang. He could not move. The wing had blown...

They [Annotator's Note: Malcolm Higgins and his crew] did everything they could do to keep their plane in the air after...

Jerome Harold Black was born in November 1921 in Brooklyn, New York. He was eight when, in 1929, his dad bought a dress...

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