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Odell Vaughn was wounded while trying to remove a comrade from a minefield. He was awarded the Silver Star for his...

Kanaya said that medics followed the troops into the field. He liked to pick units that he knew would probably get into...

Rothacker Smith began selling root beer to construction workers at projects around Detroit during the Great Depression...

In October 1944, John Baldori was sent overseas and served in the Mediterranean [Annotator’s Note: under US Army...

John Robert Mannarino [Annotator's Note: serving as a translator for the US Army in Italy] was the only one who spoke...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: a sergeant with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division serving in Italy]...

One night when they were after a target, the skipper dropped this white handkerchief and James Nerison heard him give...

Charles McGee was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1919. After third grade he moved to Illinois. He also spent some time in...

When John B. Butz arrived in Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] it was extremely run down. The citizens there...

Merrill J. Clark [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain...

Arthur Smith did not burden his children with World War 2. It became current in his life as a result of his youngest...

Harley Reynolds and his unit disembarked from Sicily near the beach where they landed. There was a convoy on the way...

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