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Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...

Walter McNeely was born in St. Paul, Minnesota [Annotator’s Note: in April 1927]. During the Great Depression [...

Melvin Linkous and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] came...

[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...

It was during the Great Depression that Milton Muelder and his brother went to Germany to study in 1930 and 1931. At...

Billy P. Bassett was born in December 1924 in Deep River, Iowa. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa with his brother and two...

William White Brainard served as a radioman on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] for...

On a bombing mission over Berlin, Germany on 3 February 1945, Jesse Wofford's aircraft was badly damaged by German flak...

Henry Phillips' regiment went through a series of disasters during the battle. One full company was bush whacked by the...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

After missions they [Annotator's Note: Hewitt Brian Gomez and his fellow crewmen] would have a debriefing about the...

The Germans expected the Americans to retreat and get out of there. The American unit stayed and fought. 1 of the men...

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