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George Warner was told that blackouts were enforced because there might be enemy airplanes in the vicinity, although he...

Alfred Pierse Murphy and his brother were sent to Maxwell Field [Annotator's Note: now Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base...

James A. Griffis was in Belgium and Holland [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 414th Infantry Regiment,...

[Annotator's Note: Various noises are heard in the background throughout this clip.] Manuel Ruiz was frightful in...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. remembers the mission flown to Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. Although the 8th...

Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...

[Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote’s daughter steps in and asks a few questions.] The government had prohibited the...

Richard Graff's sister, a nurse, started working in a hospital in California after the war. After a weekend together,...

Fred Hirsekorn's first combat was in the Vosges Mountains. They moved so much and so fast that they all lost track of...

Robert Bassemir fought in a big battle at mountain town called Lucherberg [Annotator's Note: Lucherberg, Germany with...

Arthur Albertson enlisted in the Air Force. He thought that was where he was going but five days after he signed up, he...

Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...

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