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Eduardo Alberto Peniche Carvajal recalled his first time jumping out of the plane was exciting and apprehensive....

Frank Fontana and the 500 men in his outfit reached Paris one week after it was liberated. They went to Le Bourget...

Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

Byron Othello Wilkins was in a provisional regiment that did not have enough guns to go around. They were issued 1917...

Wayne Pierce and his battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

John L. Cowan became quite a marksman [Annotator's Note: in the Reserve Officers Training Corps or ROTC]. After he went...

One day, Mort Walker heard on the radio that the war was over so he arranged for a train to take all of the Germans,...

Operation Cobra was the big breakout, and Harry Snyder said there were "thousands" of big bombers filling the skies and...

Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Division [Annotator's Note: Ridyard served on a heavy machine gun crew in Company H...

[Annotator's Note: Wilson Shoughrue served in the Army as a rifleman in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 424th Infantry...

Robert W. "Doby" Gibson was born in Utica, Mississippi in August 1924. He was nicknamed, "Doby", after a professional...

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