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Wilburn K. Ross grew up in Strunk, Kentucky. He worked on a farm until he was 18 then went to work in a coal mine but...

Hairston operated a Howitzer during the war. He notes that artillery is never really precise. There were a lot of...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] retreated about eight or ten miles...

Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. was sent overseas to Scotland and then took a train to Tidworth Barracks in Southern England....

Tokuji Yoshihashi and his fellow replacements arrived there [Annotator's Note: in France] shortly after the 442nd...

Dominick Frank Poliseno says that many of the Italians wanted to run from combat. Their little tanks were easy to knock...

Robert Clifford Pryor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1920. Growing up during the Great Depression [...

Paul Maymon was born in June 1920 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked with a fabric company until it...

Thomas Michael Holt's Ranger training was arduous [Annotator's Note: the 1st Ranger Battalion]. Darby [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and escaping from a prisoner of war camp] Olin Pickens and a fellow prisoner,...

In May 1944, Walter Henry Barton's regiment [Annotator's Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

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