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Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

William Pena was born in Laredo, Texas and attended a Catholic middle school and public high school. He was the editor...

Ruth Switzer was born in July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Jews who moved there from Poland so her father...

Robert Rupp was anxious to get home, even though he had only been gone about 18 months. He had a Bronze Star [Annotator...

Harry Quinn arrived at the hospital on 19 June [Annotator’s Note: 19 June 1944] and remained there until the middle of...

Paul Zimmer [Annotator's Note: Zimmer is one of Ed Tunnicliff's friends from basic training] moved to Northern...

Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmember aboard the USS LST-53] did not like the Germans or the Japanese. He still...

Russell Bretz Linger, Jr. flew a mission where there were heavy guns on the Cherbourg Peninsula [Annotator's Note:...

Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] knew nothing about the invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...

James A. Griffis was born in Lake Forest, Illinois in October 1924. His father was a general contractor. Lake Forest...

The worst part of the mission to Bremen for George Roberts was the fighters. Roberts operated his gun from the radio...

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