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Elmo E. Bell retired from the US Army as a full colonel. His Mississippi National Guard retired grade is brigadier...

Charles Scheffel’s run in with Mr. Shaw [Annotators Note: George Bernard Shaw] was not included in his book Crack and...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. and the others heard the guns approaching the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in...

Carl Smith re-enlisted in the Air Force. He was sent to Lookout Mountain [Annotator’s Note: Lookout Mountain, Georgia...

Bernard Knese was born in Meppen, Illinois near St. Louis, Missouri in May 1924. He grew up in a farming community....

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

George Kays had completed five years of service and had a wife and child at home. He was sent a telegram in Germany...

[Annotator's Note: Roswell Weil got married in England just before he returned to the United States after the war ended...

Richard Asbury flew 126 missions in the war. He only got into fights six times. He thought he was unlucky in...

[Annotator's Note: Recording begins while interviewer is prepping Robert Lewis Beilman. Actual interview begins at 0:01...

A typical mission for John Luckadoo started by him being woken up between three and half past three in the morning,...

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