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Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...

Philip Whitman was born in May 1919 in Zion, Illinois. He lived there until he was 12 when he moved to Wenatchee,...

When the war in Europe ended, James B. Jones was told he would be going to Japan. The invasion was cancelled after the...

Alan Moskin was drafted out of Syracuse [Annotator's Note: in Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York]. He went into...

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

William Dabney notes that the explosive did not have to be activated before being hauled up with the balloon. They...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was sent to Nijmegen, Holland...

The English were incredibly grateful for the American presence. Robert Shoens and his crew stuck together when they got...

William Leo Spaetgens had his life changed by the Second World War. If a person could not work for something or pay for...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins in mid-conversation between Virgil Clayton Moen and the interviewer.] Moen was born...

After landing at Le Havre [Annotator’s Note: Le Havre, France], Theodore R. Lee was shipped to an airstrip to be flown...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

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