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Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] was active in the bitter fighting through the...

Ralph F. Lafferty believes his training maneuvers went well. They simulated battle across a mountain pass around Camp...

Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Fred Topel was born in May 1922 in Minneapolis [Annotator's Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota] but grew up in Golden Valley...

Personnel were crying out for medics. One or two medics arrived, and Merrill J. Clark [Annotator's Note: with Company K...

It gradually sunk in to Rothacker Smith that he was a prisoner of war as he believed for the first couple of days in...

F.M. Richard Simons did not smoke and gave his daily cigarettes away. So many people in World War 2 were given free...

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

Edward J. Leonard remembers going into Rome [Annotator’s Note: Rome, Italy]. They had not had any sleep for a few days...

Walter Henry Barton had no problem transferring from a soldier to a civilian. His most memorable experience from World...

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] started on their way to Paris but...

Vernon Baker continues to describe his Medal of Honor actions in Italy. He began cutting wire on the hill. The wire was...

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