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Richard Asbury flew 126 missions in the war. He only got into fights six times. He thought he was unlucky in...

[Annotator's Note: A person appears in the background throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus was born in Bridgeville,...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn was a prisoner of war after his aircraft was shot down on 12 April 1944.] After...

James Lovell's next mission was Gemini XII. This mission scheduled to be shorter than his last 14 day excursion and was...

Baptiste was involved in 12 or 14 different battles in the Solomons. They lost heavily on the heavy cruisers like the...

James Livaudais flew in a glider over Allied shipping in the English Channel on his route to land in Normandy on D-Day...

Roger Bertolini served in the Army as a staff sergeant in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Harold Lightell entered France right after the D-Day invasion with the 79th Infantry Division. The 79th was under...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] was looking for a pile...

Joseph Taliancich landed in Marseille [Annotator’s Note: Marseille, France during the Allied invasion of Southern...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Arles J. Doss was drafted into the Army in March 1944 and did his basic training in Little Rock, Arkansas. He trained...

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