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[Annotator's Note: Carl Peterson served in the Army as a mortar man in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment...

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

[Annotator's Note: William Edwin Howard was a replacement infantryman in the 2nd Battalion, 6th Armored Infantry...

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

Lloyd Rogers remembers the new B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] was a better...

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

Joseph Hairston was born in May 1922 in a log cabin just outside of Martinsville, Virginia. He stayed in Virginia for...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were...

Erwin Blonder recalls the tactics that the Germans used in France. They would use small scale hit and run tactics. They...

Walter Barnes and the other American forces in the area moved both during the day and at night. They were constantly...

Lawrence Yatsu got a medical discharge. He had been in the hospital for over six months when he got his CDD, or...

James Read Kirk was born in September 1924 in Watseka, Illinois. His parents moved to the Detroit area [Annotator's...

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