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

After basic training, Bruce Estes was shipped to Naples, Italy where he joined a 60mm mortar squad [Annotator's Note:...

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

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 1st Infantry Division] and his unit were fighting the Germans in...

People in combat are people in combat. Hairston does not believe in women in combat. He is the father of 4 daughters...

The war affected Robert Ledford because it made him grow up fast. He went into the service at 18 years old and by 19 he...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

Vernon Baker arrived in Italy on around 28 June 1944. His Medal of Honor action did not happen until the following year...

Ralph F. Lafferty was born in December 1918 in Portland Oregon. He had to older brothers, but one of them died of...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] occupied a small German village after the war’s...

[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and escaping from a prisoner of war camp] Olin Pickens and a fellow prisoner,...

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