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Philip Whitman was born in May 1919 in Zion, Illinois. He lived there until he was 12 when he moved to Wenatchee,...

Lynn Compton had his orders changed so he could play baseball in Paris. He would look around for facilities for the...

When the Germans captured Hugh Colbert and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry...

Daniel Samuelson was a gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. He loved the plane, but it had nothing for...

George Reitmeier was born in June 1925 in Lackawanna, New York. He grew up in a German and Polish neighborhood with a...

Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

Onesi and the other waist gunner were taken to a German hospital, he was wounded by a machine gun, but the Germans did...

Michael J. Doi was born in California. On 19 January 1942 Doi was inducted into the US Army at the age of 21. The army...

[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne was a bombardier-navigator in the 553rd Bombardment Squadron, 386th Bombardment Group,...

When Wayne O. Hill was in Belgium, the people were starving. They tried to help them with the harvest. They went to see...

[Annotator's Note: John Paul served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Kelly Kuwayama landed in either May or June 1944 in Italy. They worked their way up the boot of Italy. When they were...

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