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Robert "Bob" Rickel flew with the 379th Group [Annotator's Note: 524th Bombardment Squadron, 379th Bombardment Group,...

Gilbert S. Shawn flew with Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note: later US Air Force Brigadier General James "Jimmy" Stewart...

Frederick Freeman was born in Saint Louis County in Kirkwood [Annotator's Note: Kirkwood, Missouri] in May 1925. His...

Food was extremely scarce for Hugh Colbert and his comrades in German prison camp. Morning rations consisted of a half...

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

By the early days of May [Annotator’s Note: May 1945], Clyde East and most Americans knew the war was over. The Allied...

Herbert Fontenot did not look back after leaving the Navy. He enjoyed his wartime experience and his career afterward....

Norman Johnson was born on Staten Island, New York on 16 January 1925. His father was an electrician. In the afternoons...

Roy Joseph Moss spent time in a rehabilitation hospital [Annotator's Note: after being wounded in March 1945]. He was...

Raymond VanDuzer was recommended for a Silver Star but he did not know it at the time. He was awarded two Bronze Stars...

Hana Zoltz worked in a factory making guns. [Annotator's Note: Following the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto in August...

Lucien Paul Laborde was named after his grandfathers. He was the third boy in his family. Laborde was born in Vinton,...

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