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Kassal remembers making it to Palermo, Italy after three to four weeks with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was in...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich was born in July 1919 in Emigsville [Annotator’s Note: Emigsville, Pennsylvania]. His father died...

Glover Pugh was lucky to get through the war. He has been married three times. He had six children with his first wife...

When Timothy Mahoney got to the 449th [Annotator's Note: 449th Bombardment Group, 47th Bombardment Wing, 15th Air Force...

Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...

When Charles Coolidge was in Italy Patton did not mean a thing to him. Coolidge passed a vehicle with General Patton in...

As Anzio [Annotator's Note: Battle of Anzio, 22 January 1944 to 5 June 1944, Anzio, Italy] was tailing out [Annotator's...

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Charles Radford was at Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: in Louisiana] in the 166th [Annotator's Note: 166th Infantry...

William Leo Spaetgens returned to Treasure Island near San Francisco after his leave at home. At that point, he was...

While serving in England, there was a ship that gave Lee O. McKinnon and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Calvert (...

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