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Harold Shook flew on the first 50 missions of his squadron [Annotator's Note: 506th Fighter Squadron, 404th Fighter...

Clarence Anderson had to fly differently than usual because of the amount of fuel he had aboard. All of the fighters...

Chester J. Butcher was born in Pinhook, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: an area in Lafayette, Louisiana] in December 1922...

When tunneling Tom, Dick, and Harry [Annotator's Note: Tom, Dick, and Harry were the codenames for the tunnels being...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Delbert Wombacher was his role was in the Louisiana Maneuvers, series of Army...

[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...

Joseph Alexander and his family lived with another family in the Warsaw Ghetto [Annotator's Note: in Warsaw, Poland]....

Mario DeCarlo recalls electrocuting himself when he attempted to install a light bulb in his pup tent one night. He...

Eugene Henry Gierka's most memorable experience was his being exposed as an interpreter to a couple hundred Polish...

Asked to recount the occasion when he was taken prisoner, Joe Pigott recalled that it was after they blew the bridge at...

Harold Roed completed five successful jumps [Annotator's Note: parachute training jumps] and graduated from jump school...

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