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Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. served with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group, 5th Bombardment Wing,...

James Kemp McLaughlin was born in Charleston, West Virginia in December 1918. He grew up on a small farm and attended...

The only negative thing Frederick Amore heard about the American warfare in the Pacific was when "they used that bomb...

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

The day of the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip interview, Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. refers to papers he is holding as he...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

After the war ended in Europe, it was a possibility that John B. Butz and his crew would be needed again to fight Japan...

Dr. Roscoe Brown feels that Washington D.C. was an ambivalent city when it came to race. When they got to Virginia they...

Raymond Cauble had to leave his wife in Tampa [Annotator's Note: Tampa, Florida] when he went up to Smyrna [Annotator's...

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