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Within a week, shipping instructions were posted and George Griffenhagen's name was on the list. They shipped out in...

James Jordan took his basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia. It was night and day from his college military experience....

Fred Gordon recalls being under constant enemy fire for weeks. He was eventually transferred from the observation post...

After his hometown [Annotator's Note: Apeldoorn, Netherlands] was liberated [Annotator's Note: on 17 April 1945],...

Herman Molen remembers his first mission with Captain Ted Tyler, nicknamed “Hard Luck” Tyler. He did not fly a mission...

Norman Ikari recalls Pearl Harbor very well. It was a Sunday morning and Ikari was sitting in his house in East Los...

Robert Heller was born in December 1921 in Lake Wood, Ohio and became a member of the United States Army's 91st Bomb...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Roberto "Bob” Ruiz and the interviewer midsentence in a story.] Ruiz was...

Theodore Vallas was happy to know that his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-7)] was going into battle and that he...

James "Jim" L. Brooks finds it very difficult to describe aerial combat because so many things are happening is such a...

Robert Huber believes that camaraderie is what kept the men in his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion,...

Harry Snyder was born in August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an only child who lived with his mother and...

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