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Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

Bastogne was very cold. There, Edward Shames' platoon mostly executed patrolling actions. Shames relates that his...

George Reitmeier was born in June 1925 in Lackawanna, New York. He grew up in a German and Polish neighborhood with a...

Tom Quigley remembers watching as the two platoons before his made their way down the hillside, through some fields,...

Clarence Anderson went on a couple of patrols with an experienced pilot in the lead and was then sent out on his own....

Ruth Switzer recalled living in a two family house. Her family lived in the apartment upstairs and another family lived...

Z. Anthony Kruszewski was born in June 1928 in Warsaw, Poland. His grandfather was a chemist working in Russia. The...

Wilbur Thomas enrolled in the school's ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] program while he...

James Harvard London was born in Cordell, Oklahoma in June 1925. London does not remember growing up. His father worked...

Henry Heim was glad to accomplish what he did. He is proud that he got to fight for his country. He was worried he...

Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

After the normal briefing for Virgil Faust's second mission, he and the crew weren't much worried about the flight....

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