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At the time, Roger Bowers had never considered the idea of being captured. On 16 December 1944, right after daybreak,...

Lloyd Reese trained to be a bombardier on the AT-11 [Annotator’s Note: Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan] and then the B-24 [...

Emil Kesselman was born in April 1927 in Jamaica, New York. He had one brother, George, who has since passed, and a...

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

Curtis Renner was born in Danielsville, Pennsylvania in February 1921. He was drafted into service in July 1942 and...

Joseph Kagan remembers crossing the Rhine River. The Germans were on the high ground and shooting at the bridge....

Laszlo Schwarc watches movies about the Holocaust with some difficulty, but he no longer wants hatred to be part of his...

Edwin Knight was born in 1923 in Washita, Arkansas. He grew up on a small farm there during the Great Depression....

Carrol Smith did occupation duty in Nagasaki, Japan. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese...

Stanley Fagerstrom left New Guinea on 15 November 1944. The Japanese came across the Pacific in the beginning. They...

William C. Ellzey was born in September 1922 in Agricola, Mississippi. The oldest of nine children, he grew up on a 40-...

Harold Jones and his unit [Annotator's Note: 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] went to Lipa [...

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