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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-...

Photograph. Destruction and rubble from heavy Allied bomb damage in Caen. Translated German caption on photo reverse: "...

After he was captured Floyd Dumas and his fellow prisoners were marched to a small town and put in a basement. They...

Gus Gikas and two other men swam about a mile from the sinking HMT Rhona to the Pioneer [Annotator's Note: USS Pioneer...

Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft] squadron [Annotator’s Note: 34th...

James Kemp McLaughlin could see the German fighters approaching. The Germans liked to attack from the front and when...

On 5 January 1945, Carl Beck and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry...

Howard Fox said that after the invasion of Normandy was underway, the USS Catoctin (AGC-5) was used as an amphibious...

David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...

Paul Roach was a city engineer. He was in the reserves for two weeks in the summer. He was taking classes in command...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Bosworth served in the USAAF as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in...

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