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Van Barfoot grew up on a farm and his family was all on the farm. They grew cotton and corn and made a living during...

James Read Kirk bombed France [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...

William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...

In the summer of 1942, Dominick Frank Poliseno was inducted at Fort Niagara [Annotator's Note: near Youngstown, New...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 1st Infantry Division] and his unit were fighting the Germans in...

For Frank Mancuso, the war took away four years of his youth and there were many things he did not get a chance to do....

Claude L. Lewis remembers they had to dig foxholes. The Germans had left big piles of sandbags. They could see the...

[Annotator's Note: George Sichler was assigned to the 45th Infantry Division when it was formed.] He had been training...

Alexander Jefferson’s plane name was “Bubble Blue Subsoil” [Annotator’s Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...

Freddie Ohr had an aerial photographer in his group who had just come out of the photography school in Denver. He asked...

Lawrence Yatsu was in a relocation camp. When he left the camp to go to college he was drafted. By that time his...

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