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

Edward LaPorta does not recall the date he was captured at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. He believes that the reason...

Raymond Wells retired from the service in June 1983. After retiring, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas but eventually...

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

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,...

Ivan Van der Pool believes having The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] is important...

Theodore Finkbeiner and the paratroopers he was with started heading toward Gela. Whenever they heard shooting they...

Merrill J. Clark's first operation [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment,...

Rothacker Smith underwent weeks of training amid a racially tense situation at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Smith was one of...

F.M. Richard Simons was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania in December 1925. He lived there his whole life. He attended...

In May 1944, Walter Henry Barton's regiment [Annotator's Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

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