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On 9 April [Annotator's Note: 9 April 1945], Russian shock troops burst into the hospital where Wendell Galbraith was a...

William Morris Paulk did not talk about his World War 2 service when he returned home. It was years before he related...

On his fifth and final mission to Ploesti [Annotator’s Note: Ploesti, Romania], Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal [Annotator’s...

In June 1940, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood's school decided to evacuate from Kent, United Kingdom to Wales, United Kingdom...

The next morning Frank Mancuso is awoken by a lieutenant. He quickly learned that his unit had moved out of the city....

Steve Pisanos got his private pilot’s license. He studied from a booklet he had picked up while visiting a Greek Air...

Of all the ground crew personnel, Edwin Sved recalled only one with whom his crew got close. He told the tale of a...

Theodore Noel Carder and his platoon [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division]...

Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

Going into this invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] was not...

After Carrol Joy arrived in England, he was sent by train to Ashford Kent. They may have been the closest base to the...

Kenneth Beckman trained with one crew prior to being sent overseas, then joined another crew just prior to leaving. He...

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