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Alexander Jefferson traveled overseas on the top deck with White nurses in a group of all Black officers. The White...

Darrell Welch is a fifth generation Texan born in Center City, Texas [Annotator's Note: in March 1918]. He moved West...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling in the background throughout this segment.] Albert Castaing was born in New...

Timothy Mahoney wanted to join the Navy because a friend of his was in the Navy. His father told him to wait until he...

Twenty minutes out of his home base and Barney Old Coyote was in enemy territory. is first mission was to Rouen, France...

Raymond Cauble won an airplane ride in 1935. Cauble volunteered for the service due to patriotism. He says he would...

Lloyd Rogers joined the service in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He had basic training in St...

Alexander Jefferson flew a mission to Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. It was the first time Jefferson had...

Alexander Jefferson went into Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: then in Sagan, Germany; now Żagań, Poland] with about...

After he left the service, Armiger Jagoe went back to Harvard, but left after a week because he couldn’t sit in a...

James Read Kirk was taken to Budapest [Annotator's Note: Budapest, Hungary] where he was put into prison [Annotator's...

On 9 November 1942, Norman Kinsey was offshore of Casablanca and Fédala [Annotator's Note: both in Morocco]. He awoke...

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