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

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

Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

Olin Pickens was born in December 1921 near Dumas, Mississippi in the small village of Locum. His father worked as a...

Walter Ehlers moved his squad up the hill to the trenches [Annotator's Note: during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6...

When Edward LaPorta landed in Oran all he could see was the German fortress which had two giant spotlights shining out...

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

Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...

James Nerison learned how to handle the boat [Annotator's Note: PT boat], fix the engine, and operate the radio...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

After five weeks in Casablanca [Annotators Note: Casablanca, Morocco], Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note:...

Ivan van der Pool was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when he received his orders to go overseas. From there, he boarded the...

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