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Slape and Creger [Annotators Note: Sgt. William Slape and Private John B. Creger] were trying to get back to the...
Clarence Anderson's first mission was to Frankfurt,Germany. For the mission he was flying wingman for an experienced...
The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...
In Seattle the ship was opened to the pubic to try to convince them to keep working hard. Ari Phoutrides believes that...
When Theodore Finkbeiner landed on Anzio Beach he and the other landing troops were bombed and strafed. Company G [...
Clinton Gardner and the armed forces with him were so well trained that he does not remember being afraid when they...
When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...
Zawada recalls the battle at the Shafenburg bridge just before the Hammelburg Raid. His platoon remained in the town of...
When Henry Phillips left the hospital after three weeks of recovering from his third wound he boarded a replacement...
Kalil did not think he was going to survive after seeing all the Germans in the town. All he remembers from getting hit...
Robert Shoens felt that the flak was limited on that mission [Annotators Note: the 6 March 1944 mission to Berlin]. It...
Major Brubaker [Annotator's Note: spelling unknown] operated on Lou Brissie. Brissie thought his entire squad had been...
Richard Ford heard about the training incident at Slapton Sands [Annotators Note: Ford is referring to Exercise Tiger,...
Onesi remembers Dick Smith's [Annotator's Note: Onesi's pilot] mother keeping in touch with the crew and their families...
Robert Murphy located Gordon Prein and convinced him to come to the Las Vegas 505 reunion [Annotators Note: reunion of...
Baldwin didn't have much to do with Capt. Fritts, but he liked him alright. Fritts knew he was a Captain, knew he was...
[Annotators Note: There is dead air at the beginning of this segment. The segment actually begins at 1:04:45:500.] For...
Even though many of the German pilots were under-qualified the 109 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109...
Mancel Kirk survived the war well. He did not get shell shock like some others did. The worst thing he suffered was the...
After the Bulge, Currey felt the rest of the war was routine. He had casualties, but nothing compared to the Bulge....
Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...
Jackson applied at Pomona College using the GI Bill. He was accepted and eventually graduated from there. He was still...
Bell and his men got on the other side of the river and did not lose a single man. This was remarkable because each man...
Back in the United States the main role he had was to see that everybody's personnel records were in order before they...
The Germans had no idea what was going on. The worst part of the Battle of the Bulge for Biddle was when his friend was...
Robert Christie got orders to go back to the United States via a troop ship. The ship was named the Newburn Victory....
Freddie Ohr was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Group overseas. They were flying Spitfires. Ohr learned how to fly the...
Steve Pisanos decided to return to base. Fuel was an issue on missions. There were incidents of Spitfire pilots having...
Joseph Diamond was under mortar attack when he was wounded. A mortar shell exploded about 20 yards away and he felt a...
Leonard Spivey was hanging in his parachute and it was cold. Spivey was not uncomfortable because he thinks he had a...
John Noack notes that everything was fine that day. They had escort until they had to turn back. The fighters reached...
The Russians [Annotator's Note: who liberated Baynham and others at Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp] had a tank with...
Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...
Hawk describes his war wounds from shrapnel and having the pieces picked out of his skin. He describes the results of...
Milosevich did not know of the plan to pull back.The Germans flanked the position and captured hole after hole. They...
Lynn Compton remembers Doc Roe [Annotators Note: Company E medic Eugene Roe] as the medic who worked on him when he was...

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