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William Fili enlisted a few days after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Frederick Amore was born in 1924 in Bay Ridge, New York and lived there until age 17 when he moved to Rome, New York....

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] was moving toward...

A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

Darrell Welch returned home from North Africa in just under a year. He flew 61 missions. He has great praise for the B-...

Rothacker Smith suffered from pains in his foot. In the Army, they would play with the explosives out of hand grenades...

elias Doundoulakis was born in Canton, Ohio in July 1923. He grew up with one older brother, George. He was raised by...

[Annotator's Note: James Nerison served in the Navy as a torpedo man aboard PT-305 in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 22 (...

Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...

Harley Reynolds thinks he was crazy to have assaulted that pillbox by himself. Only four hours before he had learned...

Gowan Duffy was stationed in Northern Ireland [Annotator’s Note: with the 141st Field Artillery Battalion]. They...

Van Barfoot grew up on a farm and his family was all on the farm. They grew cotton and corn and made a living during...

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