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On a bombing mission over Berlin, Germany on 3 February 1945, Jesse Wofford's aircraft was badly damaged by German flak...

Donald Lewis feels lucky [Annotator's Note: for surviving the sinking of the SS Athenia on 3 September 1939 when he was...

Lewis Guidry had difficulty leaving his wife and son when he entered military service. He had moved them in with her...

John Angier had been shot down over Cologne, Germany, nearly beaten to death by civilians and saved from them by German...

Stegmeier enlisted because everybody was doing it. There was a draft going on and if you didn't enlist you would be...

[Annotator's Note: Helene Bouton still dreams of her Holocaust experiences every night.] She dreams now that it is her...

Mason Dorsey's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the day he got knocked out by a German Panzerfaust [...

After he was liberated, Anthony Acevedo increased his body weight from 87 pounds to 100 pounds. It took a while for him...

Henry Armstrong expected to go overseas. He thought he was going to the Philippines due having trained with mules. Once...

Relocated to Santa Anna, California, Alfred "Al" Danegger, waited for assignment. The Air Corps had to make personnel...

Richard Edward Gile was born in Buffalo, New York in March 1923. He recalled the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Moore flew in the major airborne operation to cross the Rhine River. Like the operation into Holland, this was...

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