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Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...

Herbert Heilbrun wore long johns under woolen pants with a warm shirt under a Mae West [Annotator's Note: inflatable...

Richard Klenoski was at a rest home [Annotator's Note: a flak house; a designated rest home for American airmen who...

Paul Roach was a city engineer. He was in the reserves for two weeks in the summer. He was taking classes in command...

Wilhelm Gehlen was born in November 1934 in Viersen [Annotator's Note: Viersen, Germany]. He remembers growing up...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

William McCowen was assigned to a P-61 Black Widow [Annotator's Note: Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter aircraft...

Raymond Mason remembers the guys in his battalion were good guys. They were well-trained. They kept seeing Germans. His...

Grant Patton remembers the convoy would not stop. One ship might stop to pick up survivors. While he was flying, they...

After getting back to the United States [Annotator’s Note: after surviving the sinking of the USS Preston (DD-379) in...

Clyde East was born in 1921 on a Virginia tobacco farm. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a share...

Francis Borrell's first cruise was in the Atlantic Ocean. Borrell believes Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator...

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