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There was a set procedure for ditching an airplane which they had practiced before. Everyone except the pilot and...

In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...

German aircraft shot at James Sandoz's battery [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 554th AAA (AW) Battalion, 29th Infantry...

Guy Stern received the Bronze Star when the war ended. The citation was for his developing a method of mass...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. is sure the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] kept planes...

Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...

Henry Sherman Fouts was born in June 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia. Life was hard. His father worked for a dollar a day to...

They [Annotator's Note: Robert Jones and his fellow aviation cadets at Maxwell Field, Alabama] did a lot of night...

After 30 days at home, Walter Ehlers returned to his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry...

James Livaudais saw a man named Oseroff killed. That was the first combat death that Livaudais witnessed. He merely...

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

In June 1940, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood's school decided to evacuate from Kent, United Kingdom to Wales, United Kingdom...

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