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A typical mission for Carl Koone began with the officers going for briefings and the aircrew boarding trucks that took...

Robert Christie notes that in the war all of the high philosophical things go out of the window. To actually see it and...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...

Backtracking to the time when he was outside of Valmontone, Italy, Robert Boyer recounted an incident when they [...

Lyle Bouck was the youngest graduate in his class. He was 18 or 19 years old and the average age of the OCS [Annotator'...

Herbert W. Ridyard was called up for service on his birthday, 6 July [Annotator's Note: 6 July 1943]. He had previously...

Gerald “Gerry” Gustafson and his company [Annotator’s Note: Cannon Company, 442nd Regimental Combat Team] saw combat in...

After liberating Rome, Italy, Don Tallon and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry...

Onesi and the other waist gunner were taken to a German hospital, he was wounded by a machine gun, but the Germans did...

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note: a musician and ammunition loader on the cruiser USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] and his...

After the D-Day related transport flights, Robert Harris was assigned to a mission that never transpired. His...

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