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

George F. Mills was born in Spencer, Tennessee in May 1921. His family moved to Rock Island, Tennessee where his father...

Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a liberated former prisoner of war in Magdeburg, Germany] and his fellow freed prisoners...

[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment. Interviewee has...

Jimmy Doi was born in Oxnard, California in 1925. Growing up in California was great until the war started. Doi was 16...

Francis Resta was soaked in his comrade's blood, and, at first, mistaken for dead. He was given morphine and his...

Joseph Lesniewski liked his M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. It...

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

Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII, in Moosburg, Germany] was a consolidation of prisoners from all over. When...

Schmedemann was born in Junction City, Kansas where he grew up and attended high school. He went to Kansas State...

Robert Kean remembers they were all in uniform and writing goodbye letters home. He volunteered by staying in college...

Vernon Breen knew a little about driving a car, but when he was assigned to transport a captain and a radio...

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