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After graduating from gunnery school, Robert Tyler Oakes was sent to Salt Lake City, Utah to meet his crew. They were...

From the time Robert Doolan was ten or 12 years old, he wanted to fly. He was in high school and you had to have some...

Thomas Kolesa got married. He went to Edwardsville [Annotator's Note: Edwardsville, Illinois] and his mother was crying...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert and a few other prisoners were released from the prison camp near the end of the war. He...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

Billy Grieves rode the Falcon [Annotator's Note: US Navy submarine rescue ship USS Falcon (AM-28 /ASR-2)] down to New...

Kalil and the others were not prepared while training in Louisiana. They did not have any of the equipment they would...

[Annotators note: Henry Phillips was the operations officer in 3rd Battalion Headquarters, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th...

Darold Rice remembers boarding the ship to head back to the USA after the war was over. He joined up with a random...

Zawada recalls the drive being very easy [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as a member of Task Force Baum...

Roger Shaw was 22 years old when he returned to the United States. When he got back to the United States, he went up...

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