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At sea on the Gripsholm, Adolf Wesselhoeft had his first impression that the world was at war. When he arrived in...

Joel Urice remembers the weather was terrible. They had to go through an overcast. There was an opening in the clouds...

Scheduled to take part in the bombing of German held oil fields in Romania, Robert Sweatt left Portreath, England on a...

Wayne Pierce and the 325th Glider Infantry did not make the fight in Sicily. A couple of days prior to entry into that...

Cary Salter flew 10 missions in early January and February [Annotator’s Note: presumably of 1944]. Many of the missions...

Rankin did not shoot down Gunther Rall [Annotator's Note: Luftwaffe/West German Air Force Ace Lt. Gen. Gunther Rall]...

Thomas D. Thompson was observing a dogfight between a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter...

Donald Rudolph Carlson was born in 1929 [Annotator's Note: in Chicago, Illinois]. Life was great growing up. His...

McKee slept in the Frenchman's hayloft over night and suffered from his wounded back [Annotators Note: after bailing...

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

Frank Golemi was in France when the war ended. He flew an aircraft back to the United States. He thought he was going...

James Armstrong had bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber], which was shot...

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