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[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

To David Dennis Oran, North Africa looked just like any other town but the French people there were happy to see them....

John Robert Mannarino [Annotator's Note: serving as a translator for the US Army in Palermo, Sicily] spoke fluent...

Vernon Baker continues to describe his Medal of Honor actions in Italy. He began cutting wire on the hill. The wire was...

John B. Butz was born in Fort Worth, Texas on 14 September 1920. The Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

Joseph Hochadel and his squad started down the road and a German tank began to shell them. It was traumatic and they...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: who had served with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division from Italy to...

Thomas D. Thompson enlisted [Annotator's Note: in the Navy in early 1943] because he has a fierce love of his country....

Alexander Jefferson named his plane "Margot" after his classmate's sister. She attended graduation when Jefferson...

The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...

Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. was sent to Camp Gordon [Annotator's Note: now Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia] to prepare for...

Freddie Ohr had a lot of things happened to him. The first guy Ohr encountered really tried to make it tough on him....

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