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Leon Bass's mother always told him he did not need to use violence to solve a problem. His friends were tough guys....

Irvin Kennedy was born and raised in Algiers [Annotator's Note: Algiers neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana] and...

Eugene Vaadi enlisted in the US Army Air Forces at age 20 and was sent to Maxwell Field in Montgomery, Alabama for...

The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...

Joseph Lesniewski got on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. There were only 19...

Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child who escaped to the south of France with her parents and...

Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to...

Robert "Bob" Rickel wanted to fly with his friend, Tony [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Anthony J...

Robert Spint was born in February 1925 in Billings, Montana and lived there until he was in the sixth grade. He had...

William Dabney and the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion flew their balloons from the ships. Dabney was responsible for...

James Jordan deployed overseas right after OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] at the end of 1945 or first...

One day Olen Grant was working on an airplane when a private notified him that someone was waiting to see him in the...

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