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John Keema’s preflight training was essentially basic training and consisted of a lot of classroom work, marching, PT [...

Francis Dymnicki attempted to become a pilot in the Air Force. Half of his friends wanted to do the same. Dymnicki was...

James Alspaugh went to basic training in Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia]. The staff had been...

Marvin Raymond Edwards' most memorable experience of the war was the horrible treatment by the Germans and their cold-...

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

It took George Kays’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 136th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] 48 hours to set up...

Norman Alden Briggs was born in November 1925 in Jennings [Annotator's Note: Jennings, Louisiana]. He had three...

Gerald Claassen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting married because he could afford it by being an...

Thomas Cowart entered France as a replacement [Annotator's Note: for the 320th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry...

Otto Kirkpatrick talked with some of the guys about how the war affected them after Germany surrendered. Some of them...

Elfriede Clausen recalls waiting for the Americans to come to their village and free them from the Russians occupying...

Joseph Medicine Crow's grandfather, White Man Runs Him, met Theodore Roosevelt. The Crow nation felt comfortable in...

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