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Barney Old Coyote started flying in December 1943. After he completed his missions, he was able to wait around for his...

Joe Crandall’s unit [Annotator’s Note: the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion] was pulled from the front and sent to Aachen...

Russell Schuman was born in 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up with an older brother, who later worked an...

When Loevsky opened the nose turret to free the bombardier, the bombardier attempted to put on his shoes; according to...

Soon after joining the 1st Infantry Division, Ralph Sykes became charge of quarters. One night, while typing a letter...

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

Terrell Lavern Pigott was born in February 1923 in Picayune, Mississippi. He grew up on a dairy farm there. He worked...

John Edmund Murman was born in March 1926 in Brooklyn, New York as an only child. His father served in the Marines...

[Annotator's Note: Curt Simmons served in the Navy in the Armed Guard as a gunner aboard merchant ships in the North...

On 23 February 1945, R.M. Wilkes crossed the Roer River [Annotator's Note: at Roerdorf, or Rohrdorf, Germany]. Rogers'...

Chester Brewer joined the Army Air Corps and was sent to Midland-Odessa [Annotator's Note: Midland-Odessa, Texas] and...

On returning from the flight that achieved Donald Strait his status as an Ace [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with...

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