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

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

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: after being drafted into the Army in late 1943] was first stationed...

Herbert Heilbrun wore long johns under woolen pants with a warm shirt under a Mae West [Annotator's Note: inflatable...

Steve Pisanos decided to return to base. Fuel was an issue on missions. There were incidents of Spitfire pilots having...

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

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

Robert Rans' first impression of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was that it was...

Francis Borrell's first cruise was in the Atlantic Ocean. Borrell believes Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator...

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

John Keema and a lot of the guys he flew with had qualms about the Münster raid. Unfortunately he did not have anyone...

Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...

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