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When the war started, Arthur Frongello was still in high school, but joined the Navy anyway. When he left the Navy,...

They shipped out in late September [Annotator's Note: September 1942] and landed in North Africa on 8 November 1942....

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work was done trying to improve the living conditions. They still...

Howard T. Maki desired to enter the Army Air Forces as a pilot. Before he was drafted, he had passed various...

Chester L. Talley was on a fighter base in Foggia [Annotator’s Note: Foggia, Italy]. He also remembered when he heard...

Dominic Della Vedova was born in a coal mining camp called Bear Creek west of Ottumwa, Iowa in June 1919. His father...

Edward LaPorta was born in Italy in 1917. He grew up and was educated in Italy as well. His dream was to be a...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

Edwin Sved was born in February 1924 in New York, New York and grew up through difficult times in a caring family. He...

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Rudy Cravens remembers the ship he deployed on had to zig-zag [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] and...

Nicholas John Compagno and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat...

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