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Elmore Ruck went to ground school in Santa Anna, California. It involved training in navigation and aircraft...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was captured as a prisoner when his plane was shot down by Germans. Perdue was led to a local...

While at McConnell Airbase, Enrique Cervantes had his PX [Annotator's Note: post exchange] operation audited by a...

Joseph Pilcher was born in March 1925 and at the age of 17, the Army Air Corps allowed him to test for cadet training....

In Europe, they said the Americans were happy-go-lucky all the time and they were. There was a saying, "some people...

Rodney Charles Fraser was born in Alameda, California in January 1926. He was an active child who never knew he was...

James Britt went to OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school]. He was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma to an...

A few days after arriving in Naples, Italy, Mann was shipped up to Anzio on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship,...

The next action Robert Huber and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th...

The war ended in Europe, but a lot of people were being shipped out to prepare for an invasion of Japan. Arnold Debrick...

Richard Frothingham's unit [Annotator's Note: 656th Field Artillery Battalion] got word that they were being...

Crump was lucky making the transition from military to civilian life. He had worked in the shipyards prior to military...

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