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Wilford E. Hastings received training to handle mines while in Germany. He would pull the mines out of the ground with...

There were four phases to Victor Fienup's flight training. Preflight was ground school for two months, primary was half...

Robert Boyer used the G.I. Bill to buy a house and to get a bachelor's degree in psychology from Gettysburg College [...

The most memorable experience of the war for George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th...

When the war ended in Europe, Homer Cole was sent to Alexandria, Louisiana to begin training on B-29s [Annotator's Note...

Rankin got two confirmed, one probable, and one "damaged" during a fight on 15 March [Annotators Note: 1944]. All of...

Barbara Heming's first husband died in 1978 of Lou Gehrig's Disease. They were living in Wayne, New Jersey and he was...

Louis Cardenas remembers that the Germans left Bucharest [Annotator’s Note: Bucharest, Romania] when the Russians...

After leaving the service, Carl Koone went home to visit his family, and "fiddled around on the farm" with his father....

World War II changed John McCarthy and his life tremendously. Without the war, he might have been a factory worker....

Frank Curtis McBride was moved from there [Annotator’s Note: in the Netherlands approximately eight miles from the...

Basic training was normal for Henry Little. His training for building bridges involved alligators and snakes swimming...

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