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Donald Albert Carlson enlisted in the Army Air Force [Annotator's Note: in September 1942]. He got on a train from Penn...

John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

Philip Grass got a pistol from Negros [Annotator’s Note: Negros, Philippines]. They had a machine gun and two BARs [...

In 1949, Robert Haffner helped establish the Detroit Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association and served as...

Joel Urice was born in Oklahoma in March 1924. He grew up in a small town. Everything moved slower back then. Urice’s...

Charles Scheffel was wounded twice in Sicily, once in the arm and a fragment in his leg. Scheffel went back to the aid...

In James Pritchett's opinion, the significance of The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana...

The hedgerows were maybe 1,000 years old and enclosed every acre or two. Joseph Alter says some of them were eight feet...

By the early days of May [Annotator’s Note: May 1945], Clyde East and most Americans knew the war was over. The Allied...

The fog in England was so bad that Alfred Pierse Murphy ran into a parked jeep on his return to the base from the PX [...

Henry Floyd Little was born Kemper County, Mississippi near DeKalb. He lived in the country and his family raised their...

Seymour Reitman was a platoon runner [Annotator's Note: in the weapons platoon of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 395th...

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