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On the mission to Blechhammer one of Rackley's partner's lost an engine. He saw the cowling fly off of the engine. His...

Richard J. Field was born and raised in Upstate New York in the small town of Liberty. He lived on the outskirts of...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

While in combat in the Normandy's hedgerow country, an entire patrol from John Witmeyer's unit was killed by a German...

Paul Hissey was sent to Northern Texas for basic training for six weeks. He remembered the terrain to be very flat. He...

Clarence Anderson feels that the P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] was a big factor...

Fred Hirsekorn's first combat was in the Vosges Mountains. They moved so much and so fast that they all lost track of...

Raymond Eugene Overcash was born in Lanett, Alabama in 1923. He was drafted in 1943. He did his basic training in...

James O. Evans was born in 1925 in Rustin, Louisiana. His father owned a cotton farm and from an early age Evans worked...

John Bache-Wiig, Jr. went to Mather Field in Sacramento [Annotator's Note: Sacramento, California] for special unit...

Robert Martin went to Europe [Annotator's Note: on the USS LST-515]. The first place they went to was [Annotator's Note...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior was born in November 1919 in Laurel Hill, Louisiana. He had three brothers and four sisters....

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