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Alois Kopp and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] left Saigon on a boozy flight to Calcutta. The POWs...

Lewis A. Strandburg first saw paratroopers of the 507 [Annotator's Note: 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment] on the...

Clyde East was in Japan flying missions over Korea three or four weeks after the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. He...

Basic training was normal for Henry Little. His training for building bridges involved alligators and snakes swimming...

Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads was born in Clovis, New Mexico in March 1922 and moved to Farmington, New Mexico shortly after...

Robert Murphy located Gordon Prein and convinced him to come to the Las Vegas 505 reunion [Annotators Note: reunion of...

Erico J. Catalano was born in Brooklyn, New York in June 1920. Catalano was the fourth of ten children. His father...

Cecil K. Bell was sent to Fort Sill [Annotator's Note: in Lawton, Oklahoma] for his basic training and then to Camp...

Rankin left McChord Field on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Santa Ana, California in 15 July 1942 for preflight training....

Gerhard Franzky bounced around quite a bit in the armed forces. While in Nuremberg, Franzky walked by a radio room and...

Raymond VanDuzer then went to the Hurtgen Forest. VanDuzer really had a lot of wounded there. VanDuzer never thought he...

Thomas J. Blakey and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were in...

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