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Glen Jostad bailed out of his damaged Boeing B-17 heavy bomber and had a German fighter pass twice around him with the...

[Annotator's Note: On 5 June 1944, Edward Nacey and his crew were briefed about their mission for D-Day, the Allied...

Harry C. Quinn, Jr. was born in 1925 near Brookhaven, Mississippi in Lincoln County. He grew up on a farm during the...

Hewitt Brian Gomez received his commission and received a 10-day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...

Kenneth J. Hanson's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he invited a battered German soldier into his...

Freddie Ohr’s friend Leon asked him to go with him into the Air Corps. Ohr walked into a storefront that had been...

Robert Maxwell was laying communications wiring on the left side of a road at Besançon, France when he discovered that...

When Ubert Labat was on his way to get his discharge from Camp Shelby, Mississippi, the train he traveled on was...

Edward Shames was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1922. He can recall the Great Depression, but it wasn't as severe in his...

He remembers Captain [Annotators Note: James or Jim] Rorimer took him to Berchtesgaden and he went to the Eagles...

In preparing for deployment overseas, Richard Frothingham remembers that the 656th Field Artillery [Annotator's Note:...

Robert Swift was captured toward the end of the war. They had been advancing rapidly through Germany and were trying to...

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