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[Annotator's Note: Donald Dean Paynter arrived England around the middle of June 1944]. They started training there. He...

Sol Lazinger did not have a girlfriend while he was in the service. He did enjoy one nurse while he was in a hospital...

Donald Bryan took off on 140 missions but only completed 138 of them. The bombers aborted on two of them because of...

Kenneth Beckman discusses the comparatively impersonal nature of combat losses in the air versus those faced by the...

Ernest Gross was born in Turc, Romania [Annotator's Note: Turc or Turt, Romania] in 1929. He describes his lifelong...

Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

When Hugh Colbert was discharged from the US Army in November 1945 his father insisted that he take advantage of the GI...

Tom Quigley remembers how after the war ended, they were able to drive with the lights on their cars turned on. On his...

Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

One of Elmo Bell's superiors [Annotator's Note: he does not specify who] doubted the effectiveness of the pathfinder...

George Roberts knew people who would give their lives for him in the military. He has spoken to people at Keelser Air...

Wayne Peer was born in December 1923 in Keenesburg, Colorado and grew up in Keenesburg until his teen years when the...

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