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Lorcey J. Sonnier mostly bombed oil depots, factories, plane factories, ball bearing factories and bridges. This helped...

The people from one of the camps [Annotator's Note: he is referring to concentration camps]. They looked like ghosts in...

Harry C. Quinn, Jr. was born in 1925 near Brookhaven, Mississippi in Lincoln County. He grew up on a farm during the...

One day, Edward Zarger's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Edwin B. Cottrell’s most...

Leon Bass voluntarily entered the military. He was in a movie theater when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga graduated from high school and went to work soon afterwards. It was not long before the draft came...

John Gibbons met his future wife in Kansas before deploying overseas. Gibbons acted as the copilot for the flight...

As the leader of interrogations, Joseph Kanter [Annotator's Note: with 2nd Battalion, 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd...

Wayne Peer anticipated being drafted. The armed forces had few restrictions to defer service. Peer was inducted at Fort...

Freddie Ohr was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Group overseas. They were flying Spitfires. Ohr learned how to fly the...

Irving Baum and his friends were talking and saying that their hometown newspaper would not believe that they met up. [...

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