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Leon Hirsch enlisted in the Army Air Forces before high school graduation. He was inducted into service in August 1945...

Edward Shames participated in the battle of Carentan [Annotator's Note: 10 to 14 June 1944]. Shames says that the...

George Miles met Lloyd Polette [Annotator's Note: US Army First Lieutenant Lloyd L. Polette; awarded the Distinguished...

Robert C. Engel was born in Summerdale [Annotator's Note: Summerdale, Alabama]. He was birthed by a neighbor he called...

Johannes Aalders [Annotator’s Note: a citizen of Apeldoorn, Netherlands during German occupation] recalled that some...

Robert Stephen Bebko used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

James McDermott was in Moosburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag VII-A in Moosburg, Germany] when it was liberated on 29 April...

After Donald Strait came back to the United States he got married and worked in the Office of Flying Safety in Winston-...

Henry Burkle remembers that they were kept heavily guarded because the squadron could not operate without the permanent...

In addition to making him more alert, the war also improved Walter Broll's outlook on life. In meeting a former Me-109...

Darrell D. Gust has been a student of the 8th Air Force since he left service. Its growth has been phenomenal. He left...

Herbert Weatherwax [Annotator's Note: Mr. Weatherwax's name is actually Clarence Herbert Weatherwax] was born in...

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