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Freddie Ohr learned that his uncle had flown as a top turret gunner in B-25 bombers based in Africa. Ohr did not know...

William McCowen should never have gotten in the military in the first place. He had trick knees. He played a lot of...

Howard T. Maki had a section sergeant who was a good looking guy who looked like a soldier. The man fell apart near the...

Dominic Della Vedova was born in a coal mining camp called Bear Creek west of Ottumwa, Iowa in June 1919. His father...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...

Rommel [Annotator's Note: German Army Generalfeldmarschall, or Field Marshal, Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel] was sending...

[Annotator's Note: Norman Kinsey worked with military intelligence units in World War 2.] He never processed anything...

Joseph Hairston ended up at a camp 100 miles south of Tucson [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona...

George McGovern had one his buddies took him up in a plane to see if he could still fly a few years ago. He was able to...

When Paul Carter arrived in the United States and learned that he would be getting 60 days of leave, he was overjoyed....

Walter Barnes suffered from ADD [Annotators Note: Attention Deficit Disorder] but the war did not affect it. One time...

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