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Robert W. "Doby" Gibson was born in Utica, Mississippi in August 1924. He was nicknamed, "Doby", after a professional...

When Maurice Hackler went overseas, he was a member of a crew flying a single B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

Frank A. Wiswall graduated from aviation school and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in January 1943. He...

Carl Smith was born in January 1928 in Pittsburg, Georgia. It was a coal mining town. He had three sisters and four...

Clarene Anderson thought the P-39 was a cool airplane. With the engine mounted in the center of the plane there was...

When the New Year [Annotator's Note: 1945] came, Robert Snyder's 67th Armored Regiment [Annotator's Note: Snyder was a...

William Pena remembers how nervous his truck driver was when they left. He ate a big breakfast with his men at the...

On 8 April [Annotator's Note: 8 April 1944] they got a red flag in the area and they knew they were getting ready to go...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

George H. Roxandich [Annotator's Note: a German prisoner of war] heard news about how the war was going, and that...

The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...

Irwin Stovroff reminds people that freedom is not free. The volunteers in the military who serve today often have to...

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