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Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Guitard was assigned to the Prisoner of War Enclosure 339, Prisoner of War Information Bureau...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Albert Kitts what it was like to be in combat for the first time.] It was...

William Howard went to Scotland. His father was born in Scotland and he still has relatives there. Howard and Bob [...

Samuel Jenkins remembers the raid on Hammelburg. [Annotator's Note: The Hammelburg Raid or Task Force Baum was the...

Charles Taylor's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was able to take out a German submarine. He saw...

John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

Charles Acker went through live-fire training. They had a little town set up and they would fire live machine guns and...

John Raaen attended West Point. His father was a career officer who graduated from the Military Academy on 1 November...

Harold Berkman fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The battle lasted from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945. [...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

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