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Gerard Halpern and his fellow soldiers of the 45th Infantry Division spent the six weeks after the fall of Rome doing...

In November 1944, Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Rothacker Smith began selling root beer to construction workers at projects around Detroit during the Great Depression...

Edward Lalande returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] in a convoy. He had been in Oran [Annotator's...

Kanaya said that medics followed the troops into the field. He liked to pick units that he knew would probably get into...

William Balabanow has always felt stigma about his service in the Merchant Marine and the negative associations with...

Clinton Riddle initially wanted to join the US Navy after he graduated from high school but being the only child in his...

James Read Kirk had to give his serial number and rank to the men interrogating him [Annotator's Note: after his plane...

William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...

There were a lot of cases where there were no NCOs [Annotator's Note: non-commissioned officers]. Roland Chaisson says...

Walter Henry Barton and his regiment [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Infantry Division...

Dominick Frank Poliseno saved some letters from his time as a prisoner of war that he shares with people who show...

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