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Olin Pickens sailed overseas and arrived at Oran, North Africa on 26 January 1943. The men with whom Pickens had...

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

In addition to making him more alert, the war also improved Walter Broll's outlook on life. In meeting a former Me-109...

Alexander Jefferson survived the horrible conditions of Stalag Luft VII-A [Annotator's Note: Moosburg, Germany]....

To Norman Raner, the enemy [Annotator's Note: the German Army forces he faced in the deserts of North Africa] was...

In the middle of June [Annotator's Note: June 1943], Robert Jagers and the other crewman [Annotator's Note: aboard the...

Harley Reynolds thinks he was crazy to have assaulted that pillbox by himself. Only four hours before he had learned...

Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...

Lloyd Rogers was in the 9th Air Force, and the other two squadrons were in the 12th Air Force from England helping the...

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] retreated about eight or ten miles...

The first couple of bombing missions William Fili was on were "milk runs" [Annotator's Note: slang term used by...

After arriving in Casablanca in May of 1943, Clinton Riddle and the men of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment set up a...

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