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An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

John Witmeyer served in five armies of the US Army through six campaigns in the European Theater of World War 2. He had...

Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...

Robert S. Rugeley became a replacement after his training. He left Camp Crowder [Annotator's Note: later Fort Crowder...

A.C. Thomas drove trucks at a gravel company. He went to the motor pool and drove whatever they wanted. Thomas was a...

[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon jumped into the Wesel, Germany area 24 March 1945, with the 507th Parachute Infantry...

Leonard Spivey noted that there was a lot of commotion when they were burrowing through the tunnel. Some of the guys in...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout this segment.] Around June 1945, Paul Hilton Madden Jr...

Andrew George Jameson's first assignment in Holland was a failure. They [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion,...

T. Moffatt Burriss took out a couple Army Air Forces officers who had requested to see what life was like on the...

William E. Byrnes was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in January 1926. His family moved around a...

Munich was defended with 105 millimeter guns which were different than the 88 millimeter guns they were used to. They...

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