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Mary T. Heany applied for and got the job. [Annotator’s Note: She worked in the wing shop at Boeing] She wore a...

The missions George McGovern flew usually required between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of bombs, with ten of those bombs...

Gowan Duffy saw the French resistance fighters. They did not associate with them. He assumed they were finding hidden...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in North Africa] took a...

Howard T. Maki had taken basic training on the 81mm mortar [Annotator's Note: M1 81mm mortar]. It was a devastating...

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard. He was sent to the Armed Guard Center in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note...

When Timothy Mahoney got to the 449th [Annotator's Note: 449th Bombardment Group, 47th Bombardment Wing, 15th Air Force...

Freddie Ohr realized the weather was bad. The ground crew said no one could fly. Ohr stayed a couple of nights in Paris...

Gerard Halpern was serving with the XVth Corps when the war ended. He was stationed in the town of Chantilly right...

Clifford Smith was at home reading a comic book and listening to the radio on 7 December 1941 when the news of the...

There was some rivalry between the Coast Guard and the Navy but they got along fine. There was also a time when a...

When the American troops landed in Sicily, Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert recalls receiving heavy fire from the...

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