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For bombardier training, Maurice Hackler went to Deming, New Mexico. He worked with the Norden bombsight over the...

Ernest Chauvin got orders to go to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] and spent a year...

John Ericson was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...

James Crane got into the Merchant Marine because Roosevelt [Annotator’s Note: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and...

During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great Depression, a global economic depression that lasted from 1929...

Louis Cardenas was put into the 36th Infantry Division. They learned how to dig foxholes and fire rifles. They would...

Harper Harvey Coleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division] had...

You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...

John Angier first met his crew in the spring of 1944 and then went overseas in a brand-new, shiny, silver B-17 [...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a buzzing in the background throughout this clip.] People began to leave Danzig [Annotator’...

After the war ended, Ralph Sykes volunteered to work in the supply section. After a couple of days, Sykes was promoted...

Harold Shook was born in April 1920 in Portland, Oregon, one of two children born to his mother, who died when he was...

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