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Edward LaPorta was not able to locate other members of the 1st Armored Division. He was captured by Rommel’s [...

After George McGovern landed safely on Vis [Annotator's Note: the island of Vis, Croatia], the other nine men in his...

Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

In October 1944, Harold Ashton deployed to Hawaii. He trained and patrolled there for a month, then flew to Tinian [...

Robert Clifford Pryor believes that World War 2 was the greatest thing that happened to him. He holds no animosity to...

Ralph F. Lafferty took over a company that had been pinned down. The original officer had been wounded in the face and...

There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

Senator Dole [Annotator's Note: Robert Joseph Dole; American veteran and politician] had been in the same division, but...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Darrell Welch trained on twin engine aircraft. He was flying bombers in flight school and assumed he was going to be a...

Jim Stumpfa was shipped to Bellingham [Annotator's Note: Bellingham, Washington aboard the USS Bangor (PF-16)] when the...

Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. was born in [Annotator's Note: unintelligible], West Virginia in 1924. Growing up during the...

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