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Lloyd Geist's first mission was a sweep over France on 1 May 1944. The mission was uneventful. Geist recalled that he...

For days, James Flannigan recalls, the word was that they had to get to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lo, France]....

Richard Duchossois did not witness any outbursts of anger by American servicemen. Their job was to win the war. They...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey was flying for Air Transport Command out of Shanghai, China.] They were involved in a...

After five years in Denver, Enrique Cervantes was assigned to a new mission in Wichita, Kansas. A new airbase named...

Milton Muelder, one of seven children, grew up in a Methodist minister's family and was taught the importance of social...

Henry Armstrong was in Austria on a security detail [Annotator's Note: while on occupation duty after the war]. The...

There were two black soldiers at the door yelling that the Germans were coming. Lyle Bouck and Kriz [Annotators Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Beeghly served in the Army as a pointer on a 90mm antiaircraft gun in the 142nd and 143rd...

M. Edward Melton thought the end of the war was simple. They were fighting old men instead of young men. They liberated...

William Howard flew a mission across the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel] as his first mission. They bombed...

James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...

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