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William Schrader was born in February 1926 in Hollywood, Florida. An only child, his father moved the family to...

Paul Bosworth and his crew flew their B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] to Wales. The...

Kenneth A. Lafleur was born in May 1923 in Ville Platte [Annotator's Note: Ville Platte Louisiana]. Before the war, he...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Charles Kneflin what his personal reaction was to the Japanese attack on Pearl...

The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...

After graduation, Orrin Welty went home on a 14-day furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...

During the surrender, Bruno S. Rinas was sick, or he would have run into the hills. He discussed it with some comrades...

Joseph Geary's baptism by fire was by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire]. He realized that the bursts...

Joseph O'Donnell went to Fallingbostel, XI-B [Annotator's Note: Stalag XI-B in Fallingbostel, Germany; he arrived on 3...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Siena in the 1990s. Arrow had always been interested in...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

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