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Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...

Baynham doesn't remember many details from his interrogation. He was accused of being a spy and was threatened with...

Leonard Spivey was at the airfield for a few days. They were at the airfield on V-E Day. All hell was breaking loose on...

John Noack had a premonition on the day he was shot down that he was not going to come home that day. Noack felt like...

Richard R. Ruess was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1918. His parents had two daughters that were killed in...

Lowell Brueland arrived in England from the United States. It was interesting being there. He witnessed beautiful...

[Annotator's Note: For pilots like Raymond Kaiser, combat tours went by time in China, instead of by number of missions...

Alfiero Giamberardino started screaming about the war's end when they heard about it on the radio. The British were on...

Eugene J. Gemperline's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being operated on and the dizzy aftermath of post-...

Eugene Henry Gierka's most memorable experience was his being exposed as an interpreter to a couple hundred Polish...

Herman Molen remembers when they found out they were free. [Annotator’s Note: Molen and others were liberated from a...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

Oral History