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Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm graduated from high school and turned 18, but had no thoughts about going to college or...

Warren Schmitt was sent to San Diego after he was drafted. He had six weeks of training. Some of the young men could...

Reading, writing, and arithmetic were important to black people when Samson Alexander was growing up. They knew they...

Lloyd Geist contributes his military and career success to his basic flying instructor, who taught him to feel the...

Robert "Bob" Rickel flew with the 379th Group [Annotator's Note: 524th Bombardment Squadron, 379th Bombardment Group,...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Consolidated B-24 Liberator...

Joel Urice was assigned to the 100th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

In June 1942, Virgil Faust went overseas starting from Grand Island, Nebraska and traveling to Bangor, Maine, then to...

When Maynard David went home for the first time his wife kept it to herself. She wanted to have time alone with him...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. After being assigned to an air crew, Chester...

After five weeks in Casablanca [Annotators Note: Casablanca, Morocco], Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note:...

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