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Glen Jostad was a radio man and gunner on a Boeing B-17 heavy bomber. He flew multiple missions against German...

Thomas Bondola was held with about 150 other prisoners in a compound surrounded by barbed wire fencing [Annotator’s...

The training at Tuskegee was rigorous. There was a lot of hazing. Leahr believes that they were trained as good as...

Floyd Horne was fortunate that his first combat mission was short. It was near Calais [Annotator's Note: Calais, Hauts-...

When Bernard Ellenberg went into the service, he enlisted in the Army because he was told they would send him to school...

Leonard Spivey was told that the war was over for him and that he would not be fighting again. Spivey gave them name,...

Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was reminded why they were...

Neil Cox was born in Florala, Alabama in September 1925. He had two brothers and one sister. They lived on a farm. They...

Fred Hirsekorn was drafted in early 1943. After induction at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas he was sent to Camp Campbell,...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was building huts...

[Annotator's Note: Winnecken Gerhard speaks largely in German in this segment with very limited translation to English...

When Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. received his commission and wings from the Army Air Corps in June 1944, his mother and...

Oral History