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In Joe Pigott's opinion, General Smith [Annotator's Note: US Army General Walter Bedell Smith] was "one of the best";...

Leon Hirsch was born in July 1927 in the Bronx in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had one...

When Jack Sanders decided to enlist, he knew nothing about air operations let alone how hard it was to get into the air...

When Donald Beeghly got home from the war he did not know what he was going to do. There was a farmer down the road...

Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

On 5 June 1944, the squadron was about to take off to rendezvous with the mine sweepers when Solis “Sol” Kaslow, who...

The next morning, possibly around 3 am, Baldwin and the rest of Cannon Company were told to get ready to go ashore. To...

Among the prisoners in Ralph Sykes' prison were Hermann Goering's wife and daughter. The wives of other prisoners were...

[Annotator's Note: Wallace Yip, Sr. was drafted in 1943.] Congress started drafting 18 year olds who registered [...

Otis Barnes remembers they were getting artillery shells and they knew something was coming up. They had no warning...

Frank Biondo went to Fort Warren, Wyoming [Annotator's Note: now Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming...

Maurice Hackler was born in 1922, the second of two sons, in Cherryville, Kansas where his parents owned and operated a...

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