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Clarene Anderson thought the P-39 was a cool airplane. With the engine mounted in the center of the plane there was...

Owen Gibb remembers that the Americans bombed during the day and the British bombed during the night. They flew B-17s [...

Freddie Ohr found out it was that bullet that ricocheted off his helmet and went into the cushion. His leader made a...

When Robert W. "Doby" Gibson got out of the service in 1946, he reenlisted for three more years. He was not sent to the...

Florence MacCallum was born in November 1920 in London, England. She grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Ralph Boyer was on the SS Argentina with his crew heading to Europe. He slept with 15 other men in a stateroom. The...

Alfred Dietrick boarded his landing craft about two in the morning [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion,...

Ardell Bollinger had a couple of missions near Paris and Hamburg going after submarines. The cities had a large amount...

Harley Reynolds learned immediately on the Queen Mary that they were headed for England because the crew passed along...

Harold Beal remembers the paratroopers could not do much for them on the beach, but by the end of the day, they were up...

William McCowen's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a nearby town in Italy captured Mussolini [...

Thomas Bondola was happy on the day of liberation [Annotator’s Note: his prison of war (POW) camp was liberated on 3...

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