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Elmore Ruck went to ground school in Santa Anna, California. It involved training in navigation and aircraft...

The hedgerows were maybe 1,000 years old and enclosed every acre or two. Joseph Alter says some of them were eight feet...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...

Gale Ammerman had trained at the Alliance Army Airfield in Nebraska. He was only there a few weeks then went to North...

Bernard Knese found out he was going into the Army Air Force when he went to basic training. Basic training lasted two...

Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...

Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...

[Annotators Note: Robert Murphy served in the army as a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

In the prison of war camp [Annotator’s Note: Stalag XVII-B, Krems, Austria], Virgil Faust learned to play the card game...

The Russians appropriated German housing, and Aubrey Bradley was quartered in a home for a few days before being...

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

The scout that noticed the machine gun nests hidden in the changed leaves was able to go back to Bell and relay what he...

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