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Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a woman off camera interjects with comments.] James Ramsey Golden thought that...

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

Joseph Simpson remembers most profoundly from World War 2 his feelings when he got out of the Rur River. He did not...

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

Dolores McInnis Libby [Annotator's Note: a riveter at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] worked on Franklin Avenue....

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

Darrell Welch never turned back from a mission. There was one mission where he should have. Welch had a good mechanic....

When asked what it was like flying in the TBF [Annotator's Note: Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers aircraft], Leo...

Most of the missions Darrell Welch flew were escorting B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...

Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...

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