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Robert Jagers wrote a lot of letters home [Annotator's Note: while aboard the USS LST-351]. He would say things in code...

Night began to fall [Annotator's Note: on Monte Sambucaro or Sammucro, Italy; December 1943], and a runner came to get...

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

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] had to occupy a forest...

Johnny Ngai crossed the Rhine River [Annotator's Note: into Germany]. Three days later they were told the war would be...

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

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

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

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Cauble flew as a test pilot for the 312th Depot Repair Squadron, 41st Air Depot Group, 15th...

Charles Coolidge passed through Rome and went as far as Roccastrada where the Germans turned and surrounded the...

When he was overseas, Frederick Amore was servicing mostly C-46s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss C-46 Commando transport...

Arnold Horn remembers the Italians did not want to fight. He saw the Italians hang Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian...

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