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Lieutenant John Marr's first patrol from Timmes' orchard was sent to find any American or other friendly forces in the...

Vernon Ollar was born in July 1926 in Moline, Illinois and grew up in nearby Rock Island, Illinois as an only child....

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

William Cassady [Annotator’s Note: serving aboard the USS Frederick Funston (APA-89)] remembers the ship behind them...

George E. Budlong reported for induction at Fort Devens, Massachusetts and was assigned to a unit consisting of guys...

Wilson Shoughrue was pulled off the line in the last week in January [Annotator's Note: January 1945]. The clouds...

Following their liberation, Glen Jostad and over 100,000 other POWs were gather together and eventually flown out for...

Marvin Raymond Edwards got word that the Sixth SS Panzer Army [Annotator's Note: German 6th Panzer Army] that had been...

Joseph Taliancich did basic training at Camp Beauregard [Annotator’s Note: Camp Beauregard, Louisiana], then he was...

John W. Towle was assigned to the 448th Bomb Group while in Washington. He still belongs to a veterans group and...

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

Samuel Lombardo had 100 people working for him in the effort to get the palace and courtroom ready [Annotator's Note:...

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