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

Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. joined the National Guard after he returned from World War 2. He worked as an aid for the...

Charles Scheffel met up with the 9th Infantry Division near the airport in Algiers. It was the 9th Division's job to...

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

[Annotator's Note: Norman Kinsey arrived home from Europe in October 1945.] He drove down to Baton Rouge [Annotator's...

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

William Blanckenburg wrote a book called Private Blanckenburg Goes to War. During his combat experience they had a long...

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

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

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

Dr. Roscoe Brown was attacking a train one time. He was leading the squadron [Annotator's Note: 100th Fighter Squadron...

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

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