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Arthur Smith did not burden his children with World War 2. It became current in his life as a result of his youngest...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

When John B. Butz arrived in Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] it was extremely run down. The citizens there...

When he was overseas, Frederick Amore was servicing mostly C-46s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss C-46 Commando transport...

Freddie Ohr realized the weather was bad. The ground crew said no one could fly. Ohr stayed a couple of nights in Paris...

William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...

John Shirley wrote ten war stories. His first day in combat was memorable. He climbed out of a ditch and onto the...

Thomas D. Thompson was born in Wichita Falls, Texas in August 1925. There were ten children in his family, and he was...

Rothacker Smith's first interrogation was not bad. At the second stop of their march, Smith and his fellow prisoners...

Carl Peterson went into the Battle of the Bulge near Aachen [Annotator's Note: Aachen, Germany]. He was only there...

Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

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