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When he was told that he would be trained aboard ship as a gunner, Robert Fitz was "mystified." He arrived at the main...

John M. Roberts, called Jack, was born in Hamilton, Ohio in August 1924 and lived there until going into the Army. His...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

William Scully [Annotator’s Note: serving in Company C, 1st Battalion, 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry Division...

Leon Waldman was a waist gunner on the co-pilot’s side. Their crew flew 51 missions. [Annotator’s Note: Waldman...

[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2. He was in the Jungvolk...

Earl Colson landed in Le Havre, France [Annotator's Note: with the 86th Infantry Division]. They trained there as they...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...

Manfred Steinfeld recalls that in April 1945, a special formation of Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note:...

During one mission when Lowell Brueland escorted allied bombers over Berlin, a flight of eight JU-88s [Annotator’s Note...

Henry Armstrong had a few nightmares about his war experience, seeing a concentration camp, and more. It took him 15...

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