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James Mather joined the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note: V-5 US Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1939 to 1943] and became a...

Calvin F. Bannon was born in Seattle, Washington in 1921 and had two older brothers. One of his brothers flew a B-17 [...

Having survived bailing out of his B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bomber over...

Gerald Abbenhaus returned to the United States in July 1946. It was good that he was not able to come back right away...

Fred Amram remembers they were changing peoples’ names to Americanize them in 1939. There was a man with a pad and he...

Wallace Hurley missed his bed most of all while he was in combat. The rain was heavy in France. Foxholes filled up so...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: drafted into the Army in late 1943] was transferred to the 246th...

Charles Martin remembers that the new tanks had 75 mm howitzers on them. Martin and a friend learned how to swim...

While Dracos Burke was stationed in Erlangen, Germany [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with the 40th Bombardment...

On his 49th mission in Italy, Bernard Peters dropped leaflets. They were written in German on one side and Italian on...

After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

After receiving his draft notice [Annotator's Note: in April 1944], Thomas Houdek was sent to Camp Hood, Texas where he...

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