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Remains of airplane, probably a German aircraft, washed up on a beach. Probably in Europe circa 1944-45

Photograph. German Junkers Ju 88 aircraft taking off from snow covered airfield. No location or date. Europe. Probably...

Photograph. Smoke billows from US and British trucks on fire in an empty city street. Official caption on front: "MM-5-...

Robert "Bob" Rickel went on a mission to Anklam [Annotator's Note: Anklam, Germany with the 524th Bombardment Squadron...

Irwin Medway was drafted on 18 January 1943 and was to report to basic training. After basic, he was sent to Camp Tyson...

Lowell Brueland flew missions on 6 June [Annotator’s Note: 6 June 1944] in Normandy. The first mission was to...

Gil Gertner was born in March 1925 and lived in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. He entered...

After getting back to the United States [Annotator’s Note: after surviving the sinking of the USS Preston (DD-379) in...

Reflecting on his wartime experiences, Oscar Higgenbotham comments that if you managed to make it through the war...

Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry...

Curtis Renner was in an air Rescue squadron [Annotator’s Note: attached at times to the Ninth Air Force] to rescue...

Asked by the interviewer to recall his voyage across the Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean], James Pritchett...

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