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When the American troops landed in Sicily, Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert recalls receiving heavy fire from the...

Arthur Frongello was transferred to Squadron 22 [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 22 (MTBRon 22)] as a...

Walter Broll and his ship the Grace Abbott were in the harbor of Bari, Italy for two weeks before the attack took place...

Robert Tyler Oakes recalls that the prisoners had a homemade radio that they hid from the German guards while he was in...

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, veteran of North Africa...

From Enniskillen [Annotator’s Note: Enniskillen, Ireland], Dominic Della Vedova’s unit [Annotator’s Note: Company D,...

Edward LaPorta was a member of the 1st Armored Division. The first tanks they had overseas were riveted together. They...

William C. Smith, Junior was born in Hartford, Connecticut in August 1917. His father was supporting three families...

Rudy Cravens thinks the war made him grow up. He remembers the night before their first attack. He was happy when he...

In January or February 1945 the company commander called Charles Coolidge to the company CP [Annotators note: Command...

Norman Raner fought mostly Germans when he was in North Africa [Annotator's Note: with 3rd Platoon, Company I, 3rd...

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