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William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces out of Naples, Italy] had something strange...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into the Navy...

Ghislaine Hegerty became more responsible as a result of World War 2. She saw death and destruction during the war. She...

Clifford Campbell was born in Oklahoma in November 1924. His family was poor growing up. In 1936, his father bought a...

Oscar Otto Martin remembered that on his first day in combat, they were scheduled to attack at two in the afternoon,...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

Joseph Otho Goble was born near Statesville, North Carolina in September 1914. He, along with his four siblings, grew...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Robert W. McDonald [Annotator's Note: serving in the US Eighth Air Force] pulled detail one night as the kitchen ran 24...

Nobody on Omer Van Huylenbrouck's plane was ever wounded by flak [Annotator's Note: antiaircraft artillery fire] as far...

After completing jump school, Manfred Steinfeld was assigned to the G2 section [Annotator's Note: intelligence section...

Leon Schafer is certain the war affected his life afterwards. Number one, he never left his wife. When he got home, he...

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