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

James McDermott says that the Germans did not treat them badly. If you were taken by the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note:...

Freddie Ohr was sitting around in a tent for two and a half days. Sandborne informed him that there would not be a test...

John Gibbons has no regrets from his service during the war. He had a very successful career during which he held very...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins in a room with airplane model and other memorabilia around. It sounds as if...

Richard Ryan served aboard the Tripoli [Annotator's Note: USS Tripoli (CVE-64)] in the Pacific and the Card [Annotator'...

Nathan Taffel worked at a huge camp in Flossenburg, Germany. The camp included many different types of individuals...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

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

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

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

Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...

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