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

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

Glen Jostad and other POWs were evacuated from their initial Stalag [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug,...

Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...

He had had a few experiences with combat when Clyde Kenney's division [Annotator's Note: Kenney was a member of Company...

Vernon Tweedt got his artillery training at Camp Edwards [Annotator's Note: in Cape Cod, Massachusetts]. There were...

They started fighting from town to town. William Burrus was the assistant bazooka man [Annotator's Note: 2.76 inch...

Relocated to Santa Anna, California, Alfred "Al" Danegger, waited for assignment. The Air Corps had to make personnel...

Roy Creek remembers the chaos at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

Glen Jostad was moved to Stalag XIII near Nuremburg. The Royal Air Force and the 8th Air Force provided a morale boost...

Ben Kuroki’s B-24 outfit was called to North Africa to help out with the British forces who were going against Rommel....

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