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Louis Liberato had never experienced death before he went to Europe. He was loaded into a boxcar [Annotator's Note:...

Robert "Bob" Rickel says that there was very little room in the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

Johannes Aalders was born in February in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. He grew up with two younger sisters. His father...

Shirley Guidry remained in Europe for a year after the war. Germany was devastated. It is amazing that it was rebuilt....

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

Robert Shoens felt that the flak was limited on that mission [Annotators Note: the 6 March 1944 mission to Berlin]. It...

Fred Hirsekorn was born in Schonlanke, Germany in May 1924. There were about five generations of Hirsekorns who were...

Leonard Gaj [Annotator’s Note: captured on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944, while serving...

Walter Broll passed through the station [Annotator's Note: the Merchant Marine training station at Sheepshead Bay in...

After training in the Army, Robert Geller boarded a ship to Liverpool [Annotator’s Note: Liverpool, England] as a...

Leon Waldman enlisted in the Air Force in November 1942. [Annotator’s Note: Waldman talks about different high schools...

Eugene Henry Gierka went to Camp Upton [Annotator's Note: in Long Island, New York; now Brookhaven National Laboratory...

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