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When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., joined the service because he wanted to fly. He chose the Army Air Corps because he...

Roger Shaw returned to the United States by way of Northern Ireland. The SS George Gayle sailed alone before reaching...

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

George McGovern never really used his doctorate. After he finished, he ended up working for the Democratic party of...

Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] was active in the bitter fighting through the...

Harley Reynolds notes that today everything is different from what they were doing. Reynolds notes that they had to do...

Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...

Harold Ashton's airplane had radar in it. It was very important for him to have radar, especially over water. While...

Fred Topel decided to go into the National Guard with a few other friends. He was only 16 years old, so he had to lie...

Shiyuza Hayashi and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 100th Infantry Battalion] experienced a lot of gunfire and...

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