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Lloyd Burns was on his ninth mission when his airplane was shot down [Annotator's Note: Burns was a pilot in the 598th...

Joseph Lesniewski kept no records about where they were going. In one battle, he got hit twice [Annotator's Note: he...

Carl Platkin was in England for a week before he flew his first mission. He went down to a briefing at four o’clock in...

Aubrey Bradley said when the war was over, the Germans just folded; the guards all discarded their uniforms and left....

Being picked up by his dad at the train station after the war is the most memorable experience of World War 2 for...

Martin Baranek describes how he and a friend escaped the selection process [Annotator's Note: at the Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Robert Bueker had navigation training in Hondo, Texas. He was in San Antonio [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] on...

Archie Maltbie was called up by the air force in January 1943. After going through the selection school in order to...

Gene R. Jerabek [Annotator's Note: a lieutenant in the US Army Nurse Corps] went overseas to Italy [Annotator's Note:...

Philip Grass recalls that five companies did most of the work in New Guinea. They helped unload the ships. In August or...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow was born in 1925 [Annotator’s Note: he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. His father worked on...

Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...

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