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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses the interview to ask the interviewee to face him.] After retiring from the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Edward Zarger what his worst battle was.] The day he was wounded in the leg, 6...

When the draft began in 1942, everyone from the ages 17 and a half to 35 years old had to sign up. Roberto "Bob” Ruiz...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers the missions they went on usually had between 100 and 300 airplanes. Many missions were...

[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman was sent to the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...

In the fall of 1944, Charles Kitching [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 354th Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer went to Mobile, Alabama to board his assigned ship - the Landing Ship, Tank USS LST-502...

Clinton Gardner went back to England and stayed in the field hospital. He had an operation using skin from his leg to...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee shows the camera several pictures while he talks about events of World War 2.] In...

Chester Lee Strunk was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in December 1922. His father was a foundry worker. It was tough...

Richard Duchossois was born in October of 1921 in Chicago. His whole family lived, and still lives, in Chicago....

A boyhood friend who was to meet James Pritchett for his graduation crashed and burned while giving night flying...

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