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Vernon Alexander got into trouble prior to getting into combat. He had been practicing field stripping his machine gun...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Doolan to describe how a bombing mission would go.] They would be...

Fred Hirsekorn was born in Schonlanke, Germany in May 1924. There were about five generations of Hirsekorns who were...

Mann's group walked to the other side of the valley to join the battalion [Annotator's Note: 3rd Battalion, 157th...

Donald Evans landed in England and went to the 187th General Hospital for more surgeries and then to another hospital...

Monroe S. Wolyn was led down to the shore by the flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] battery. There...

Grover Tyner was attending Mercer University [Annotator’s Note: in Macon, Georgia], but was in Forsyth, Georgia eating...

Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] and the other...

[Annotator's Note: Charlotte Weiss is a Czechoslovakian born Jew who survived incarceration in a number of...

James McDermott considered the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the best airplane there was. He did not like the B-24 [...

William Colgan was born in Quitman, Georgia. In 1930, when Colgan was only 10 years old, his father died, leaving his...

Harry Quinn entered Camp Shelby in September [Annotator’s Note: 1943] and stayed there for about a week. From there,...

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