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On trip after the winter weather started to move in, they were briefed to a 50 knot head wind. They were in formation....

There were 18 or 19 men on Thomas J. Blakey's plane [Annotator's Note: from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

When Elizabeth Gibbens completed basic training, she was sent to Camp Shanks, New York. She found it exciting to get...

There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. He developed...

Joseph Alexander was born in November 1922 in Kowal, Poland. He had a good life there until 1939. They belonged to...

Raymond Zager ended up joining an army chorus group to stay busy during his occupation duty. He travelled around and...

After the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France], Lloyd Geist and his unit [Annotator's Note: 508th...

Robert "Bob" Livingston volunteered for service with the US Army Air Force on 4 September 1942. He was sent to Camp...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2. He was in the Jungvolk...

Wallace Yip, Sr. returned to China and got married after the war. He brought his wife back in 1947. She did not speak...

Robert L. Williams thinks it very important that museums and memorials commemorating World War 2 continue to tell the...

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