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The mountain was at the opening of a valley. It was an important valley because of troop movements and positioning. The...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., and his crew received orders to fly to a former German base in Tunisia. There were...

Henry Dubay was born in July 1923 in Turner’s Falls [Annotator’s Note: Montague, Massachusetts]. He grew up in a “...

Herman Pbert was in the hospital as the war was ending. He was told he had done a good job cleaning his own shrapnel...

Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...

Ralph F. Lafferty did not get to see his brother often, despite being in the same regiment [Annotator's Note: Lafferty...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] participated...

Thomas Michael Holt [Annotator's Note: a Second Lieutenant with the 1st Ranger Battalion] and his men were put on a...

In late May 1945, because Frank Finklang did not have enough points to go home, he was transferred to 346th Bombardment...

Michael Doi did not experience and maltreatment or racism even when he went to the South but his daughter did. After...

Freddie Ohr went from Corsica Italy to Medina, Italy. They flew out of there on a short steel runway. They flew all of...

Harold Ashton's airplane had radar in it. It was very important for him to have radar, especially over water. While...

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