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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,...

Harley Reynolds had never been more than 20 or 30 miles away from home. In one day’s time, he more than exceeded that...

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

Walter Barnes was sent to pick up some German prisoners. When he got to the enemy troops there were about a dozen of...

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

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 1st Ranger Battalion] were sent out again...

William McCowen should never have gotten in the military in the first place. He had trick knees. He played a lot of...

Frank Mancuso crossed the Volturno River prior to Monte Cassino. His unit gathered in a courtyard to refuel their...

Carl Robert Gatlin enlisted in the Army and after training, he was sent to Blackstone, Virginia to be shipped overseas...

Rommel [Annotator's Note: German Army Generalfeldmarschall, or Field Marshal, Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel] was sending...

William Leo Spaetgens enlisted in the United States Navy [Annotator's Note: on 22 October 1942]. His parents did not...

Edward J. Leonard remembers they lost the horses and got armored cars and tanks in their place. They were shipped out...

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