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Marvin H. Gohlke was on a combat patrol. They were supposed to get an object or area. He was on the extreme left flank...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

To John Witmeyer, his ability to so vividly remeber his experiences in combat, including details like names, is both a...

Vernon Schmidt was born in Reedley [Annotator's Note: Reedley, California] in January 1926. His father worked on a farm...

Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] flew 19...

Once Wayne Lebsack earned his jump wings, he was sent across the English Channel to an already secure Normandy [...

Ralph Boyer served as a bombardier with the 560th Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force at...

[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was in the 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 29th Infantry Division.] They fired far...

[Annotator's Note: John Angier was a prisoner of war in Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany.] The German forces held even...

Theodore R. Lee was born in August 1922 in Cody, Wyoming. He had poor eyesight as a child and had to wear thick glasses...

Ennis C. Warren was born in Wilmer, Alabama in September 1923. His mother died when he was born. He was raised by his...

[Annotator's Note: Winnecken Gerhard speaks largely in German in this segment with very limited translation to English...

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