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Christa Schneider was born in April 1940 in Breslau, Silesia, the younger of the two daughters in her family. Her...

Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...

Vernon Grimes has lost two wives since the war, but never cried over them, despite loving them dearly. He believes his...

Samuel W. Smith got the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] up to top speed and buzzed...

It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...

As the war was nearing its end, Eugene T. Leavy and a friend went into Backnang [Annotator’s Note: Backnang, Germany]...

Clayton Kelly Gross says the 354th Fighter Group was so proud of the 701 kills from the air that they had and in...

Robert L. Williams' buddy Joseph Slosarczyk was in charge of the pigeons. In England, Joe was tasked with throwing...

Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...

George Bernard Griffenhagen was in Plzen, Czechoslovakia on VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day], 8 May...

Leonard Spivey did not have a full crew for the mission. On the Schweinfurt mission Spivey was the squadron lead...

Among the many things Francis Neilson learned in Lincoln, Nebraska was that oxygen was a good cure for a hangover. In...

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