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Samuel W. Smith wanted to join the Air Corps as an aviation cadet. In 1942, Smith convinced his mother to sign his...

Tom Quigley recalls how after having sufficiently halted the German advance, he and his men slogged their way back to...

Glen Arnold Jostad grew up on a farm during the Great Depression. His family was poor but never hungry since they had...

Henry Feldman knew nothing about the concentration camps before his deployment. He learned of them only when his outfit...

[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...

Frank Curtis McBride was born in Kingston, New York in August 1920. He grew up in Shreveport [Annotator’s Note:...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

Stephen Ananian's first combat mission was a ramrod mission, one where fighters escort bombers. Cowboys in the old days...

Theodore Noel Carder stayed there [Annotator's Note: in a hospital in Van Nuys, California after returning to the...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior [Annotator's Note: in the 494th Port Battalion, 6th Engineer Special Brigade] was in the...

Edward Tipper enlisted in the Army. All paratroopers enlisted. None were drafted. He wanted to join the paratroopers...

After the normal briefing for Virgil Faust's second mission, he and the crew weren't much worried about the flight....

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