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Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

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

Wilburn K. Ross had his molars knocked out in France by shrapnel. His company commander had sent him and about eight of...

When Edward LaPorta was in North Africa they wore a combat suit. At night they put on heavier clothes because it gets...

Jim Stumpfa had an exciting time at sea [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Bangor (PF-16)]. He had a shop. He had a...

At Camp Hale [Annotator's Note: Camp Hale, Colorado], Ralph F. Lafferty learned rock climbing, how to climb mountains,...

In basic training David Dennis went to school first. His basic training was the normal marching and learning their gun...

James Read Kirk's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...

Gowan Duffy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1920. He would bounce from one job to another because they...

Fred Topel was called in for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] and was flown...

Frank Finklang quickly learned from the "old timers" to hold onto K-rations [Annotator's Note: individual daily combat...

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