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Edward LaPorta does not recall the date he was captured at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. He believes that the reason...

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

Fred Topel was born in May 1922 in Minneapolis [Annotator's Note: Minneapolis, Minnesota] but grew up in Golden Valley...

After training, Shiyuza Hayashi was sent to Oran in Africa [Annotator's Note: with the 100th Infantry Battalion,...

During the overseas voyage Frank Mancuso was in charge of checking the tie downs, therefore he had privileged access to...

At Fort Huachuca [Annotator's Note: in Cochise County, Arizona], Robert Madison was appointed S-2, intelligence officer...

After the kamikaze hit the ship it was the end of the war for the crew. She came back to the states on her own power....

Edgar De Pue Osgood was on anti-submarine and escort duty [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...

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

After the war, Jim Stumpfa got Grace [Annotator's Note: a Navy girlfriend] a hotel room when she came to visit [...

The river crossing [Annotators Note: the 20 September 1944 crossing of the Waal River in Holland during Operation...

Jack Cohen had a speaking engagement at a school, and a child asked him what was the important thing that kept him...

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