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Robert "Bob" Rickel was born in Toledo, Ohio in July 1923. Rickel's father came to the United States from Poland....

Robert Bueker and his crew [Annotator's Note: in the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] had a lot of secondary...

Philip Grass remembers being near Port Moresby [Annotator’s Note: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea]. Their encampment had...

Robert Shoens sent a telegram to his wife in Maine to let her know that he was coming home soon. There were a bunch of...

Hartsel Ross was born in January 1926 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Ross heard the news of the attacks on Pearl Harbor [...

Joseph Pilcher said that when the war ended in Europe, it seemed like every aircraft in the 9th Air Force went airborne...

Because Richard Frothingham didn't get along with his stepmother, he had some problems returning to civilian life, but...

Johannes Aalders and his friends would run around after school and see if there were things they could steal. They made...

For Henry Phillips Sicily was a cake walk. They landed in Palermo from a big transport. The Germans used aircraft...

Raymond Mason remembers there was looting [Annotator’s Note: Mason is referring to entering Germany]. He put the rule...

John Koenigsberg was picked up by the underground and his parents did not know where he was. After the war, his parents...

Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

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