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

Edward LaPorta does not recall anything special about the battles at Gafsa and El Guettar. Battles are all the same....

Thomas Michael Holt was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] in the same camp [Annotator's Note: Oflag XIII-B near...

Reneau Breard [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

Frank Finklang was put with experienced crews for nine missions, and then his original crew was reformed to fly their...

When the draft was instituted, Harold Ashton decided to enlist in the Navy with hopes of becoming a pilot. After...

When Crain got a chance to examine his boat he noticed there were about 50 to 75 marks in the steel where bullets had...

Being in charge of other people helped give Raymond Wells focus during combat and did not leave any time to be afraid....

[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and then escaping from prison camp] Olin Pickens followed a river into...

Edgar De Pue Osgood and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 111 (VPB-111)] were in Florida when...

Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. received the Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the fourth-highest award a United States service...

Albert Porche was born in Houma, Louisiana in 1922. He has spent his life in Houma except for during the war. Life in...

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