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Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...

Herman Pbert was in the hospital as the war was ending. He was told he had done a good job cleaning his own shrapnel...

Claude L. Lewis was born in 1922. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic depression that...

Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...

Paul Maymon was born in June 1920 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked with a fabric company until it...

The worst part of the fighting for Johnny Ngai was fighting in to Cassino [Annotator's Note: Cassino, Italy]. Rocks and...

Dominick Frank Poliseno says that many of the Italians wanted to run from combat. Their little tanks were easy to knock...

Thomas Michael Holt [Annotator's Note: a Second Lieutenant with the 1st Ranger Battalion] and his men were put on a...

During the invasion of Normandy, Clinton Riddle and most of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment landed in British Horsa...

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

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