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F.M. Richard Simons only regrets losing good friends. He is an only child. His parents divorced. His mother got rid of...

Freddie Ohr notes that another day LeMay [Annotators Note: USAAF then USAF General Curtis LeMay] landed and was looking...

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

At the end of the war Vernon Baker was a second lieutenant but in May of 1945 he became a first lieutenant. His...

After the combat that Charles Radford initially saw, a feeling of hatred began brewing towards the Germans. The fact...

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

Harold Hall Ashton was born in May 1919 in Shed, Oregon. He grew up in a family with four children. All four siblings,...

Fred Topel decided to go into the National Guard with a few other friends. He was only 16 years old, so he had to lie...

Much of what William Blanckenburg is talking about is in his book [Annotators Note: Blankenburg authored a book titled...

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

After Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. was released from the hospital in the United States, he was assigned to the 78th...

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

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