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Russell Schuman was born in 1924 in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up with an older brother, who later worked an...

While waiting to go home, Gordon Higgins drove a jeep and an ambulance. He also ran a "pro station," where soldiers...

John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew received orders to fly overseas to England, making one stop in Iceland. They...

Harold Roed was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1926. He had an older brother, who was also in the service, and a younger...

John A. McCarthy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His family moved to Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. He was...

Olen Grant got restless and tired of going to town to get drunk all the time, so he asked a few of his buddies how they...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

While John Witmeyer and his fellow soldiers waited aboard ship to land at Utah Beach on D Day, they did not know that...

Opal Grapes joined the Army and reported for duty at Foster General Hospital in Temple, Texas. She underwent training...

[Annotator's Note: Video glitches several times throughout this segment.] Bernard Kofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York...

Gilbert Shawn was not shipped to basic training. Instead, he went to an air field in Kentucky as a cadet. Shawn took a...

Bernard Knese remembers that on a mission to Holland or Belgium, one of the planes had to crash land. The pilot and co-...

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