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Irwin Stovroff feels that The National WWII Museum is a creation that could only have happened after a war like the one...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

Wesley S. Mullen was born in March 1925 in southwest Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] and...

Joseph Kagan remembers crossing the Rhine River. The Germans were on the high ground and shooting at the bridge....

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

A year after enlisting as a private Robert Christie graduated from OCS [Annotators Note: Officer Candidate School] with...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Donald Lewis what he recalls of hearing of news of the war when growing up.]...

Richard Scheerer does not recall hearing any news about D-Day prior to crossing the Channel. The first night he sat...

Norris Bucksell was born in August 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended Valena C. Jones Elementary School. He...

Morris Eugene Day ended up in the Ruhr Pocket [Annotator's Note: a massive Allied encirclement of German forces in the...

Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

Lysander "Ben" Neighbors [Annotator's Note: stationed in Duxford, England with the 14th Fighter Group] serviced P-47s [...

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