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Henry Schaller received his pilot's wings in 1944. After he graduated, he was a second lieutenant. He could not hear...

Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was born in Vienna, Austria in December 1925. She had strict parents but her childhood was very...

Frank Buschmeier was put into a big room on the first night. All night long guys were coming in and were trying to find...

Robert Boeke went to infantry training school which was 16 weeks of training at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Walter Gaterman arrived at Stalag IV-B near Mühlberg, Germany. He had been interrogated three or four times beforehand...

Freddie Ohr made a dozen passes over the airfield. They went up to provide cover when the top flight went down. Finally...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

Eugene Yackel and Cranston Rogers [Annotator's Note: later US Army Colonel Cranston R. "Chan" Rogers] got along well....

Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. thinks the Norden bombsight [Annotator's Note: Norden Mk. XV tachometric bombsight] was a...

Manfred Steinfeld recalls that in April 1945, a special formation of Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note:...

Lewis Thomas Easterling had broken his legs when his plane was hit and he could not go anywhere when he landed. A group...

Richard Ford was pinned down by a German machine gun. He was up against a hedgerow so tight that he could not move. The...

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