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John Keema’s preflight training was essentially basic training and consisted of a lot of classroom work, marching, PT [...

During the actions that led to George Sakato receiving the Medal of Honor, he wondered what he was doing here and why...

Richard Gibian thought the ground fire was dangerous. When flying to and from a target, pilots flew in an "S" motion to...

Maurice Zolkower thought it was an adventure to approach Dachau [Annotator's Note: as a medic in the 45th Infantry...

Richard Graff was born in August 1924 on a farm outside of Popejoy, Iowa. His parents were German immigrants born in...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga's most vivid memory was his last flight over Bastogne [Annotator's Note: Bastogne, Belgium]. The...

Onesi recalls the aircraft flying in a very tight V formation to protect each other. They bombed their targets during...

Gerhard Franzky remembers Leipzig before the war as being a very historical city with very old opera houses and...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

William McCool left Ohrdruf, Germany and its concentration camp bound for Dresden, Leipzig, and then Zwickau on the...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

On 10 January 1945, Vernon Wold went by train to Camp Shanks, New York [Annotator's Note: Camp Shanks in Orangetown,...

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