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Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] By October 1943, Edwin B....

Edward Shames met the chief of the Dutch Undeground, John Van Kuijk, during Operation Market Garden in September 1944....

Cleston Stell arrived in France where he joined the 80th Infantry Division in St. Avold. He was assigned to Company G,...

John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...

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

Eugene Henry Gierka's most memorable experience was his being exposed as an interpreter to a couple hundred Polish...

William Morris Paulk did not talk about his World War 2 service when he returned home. It was years before he related...

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

Vernon Tweedt does not recall where he was when a trainload of people came through the town. They were packed like...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew had another pilot for a few missions because the pilot was on leave. Fitzroy [Annotator's...

Henry Burkle’s wife’s father was trying to raise chickens. One of the things Burkle did during the Depression [...

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