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Training in North Africa concentrated on mortar combat and night missions, according to Henry Baughman, and when the...

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

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich made a few friends in the prison camps [Annotator’s Note: he had been captured at Sidi Bou Zid,...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

Southern France [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944] was the easiest...

At the end of the war Vernon Baker was a second lieutenant but in May of 1945 he became a first lieutenant. His...

Albert Hatala primarily built Bailey bridges while he was serving in Italy. He also ran communication wire so...

[Annotators Note: John Vessey served in the army as the First Sergeant of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,...

In September 1943, Harold Ashton's squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 21 (VP-21)] was sent to England. On the...

James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

Raymond Wells was by himself with a .30 caliber machine gun and took out three enemy snipers. He moved to San Pietro...

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

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