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Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the US Army Air Forces] was about 20 miles away from where Mussolini [...

Albert Porche began his typical day as a fighter armorer by having breakfast and then going to look on the board where...

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

Robert Tyler Oakes easily adjusted to civilian life. He was glad to be home. He does not recall any posttraumatic...

When it was time to go overseas, Timothy Mahoney was put with a combat crew and flown to Fort Lauderdale [Annotator's...

A friend of Hollomans in a MATS [Annotator's Note: Military Air Transport Service] unit needed an operations officer....

Lloyd Rogers remembers that there were temporary airfields in the Sahara Desert. Each airplane was dispersed with 100...

Armiger Jagoe was born in April 1921 in Okolona, Mississippi and moved to Gulfport, Mississippi when he was two years...

Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Alexander Jefferson volunteered for service in order to avoid the draft. If he had been drafted he would have been a...

Darrell Welch returned to the 4th Air Force in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], and was...

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