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Stanley Berman's [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force] daily routine overseas was waking up, going to wash up in...

Before he could finish his schooling, Philip Schmidt was drafted into the Army. He knew several people that had been...

Robert Rupp was born in 1918 in Aurora, Nebraska. He lived there until he went to college. The worst of the Great...

Dr. John Julien Zingheim does not think the war changed him. He was not bitter about being forced to go to war. The...

Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...

Two days before Frank Maresca's last day in combat, he and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 289th...

Edward Field was a navigator and an officer but also enjoyed associating with enlisted men. He discovered that one of...

Lysander "Ben" Neighbors was born in February 1922 in Avinger, Texas and grew up in different locations. They moved to...

Robert J. "Bob" Goebel says the P-39 [Annotator's Note: Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft] had a bad reputation. It...

Bernard Friedenberg trained for the invasion of Europe after the invasion of Sicily. He landed at Omaha Beach and Gela...

[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as a pilot flying Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers in the 669th...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks about Jack Buckner's last mission as a bombardier.] They would wake up around...

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