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Martin Baranek was born in August 1930 in Wierzbnik, Poland, the older of the two sons of his Jewish family. He...

In September 1944, Francis Resta was attached to the 29th Infantry Division and he saw his first combat at Birgden,...

Monty Joe Boitnott rested after Sened Station. The groups that were supposed to move toward the port did not make it...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was captured as a prisoner when his plane was shot down by Germans. Perdue was led to a local...

When Harry Bell steamed into New York Harbor one of the first things he saw was the Statue of Liberty. When he saw it...

Lawrence Angst never became a doctor because he could not. He came back and recovered from his injuries, but he could...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was trained in Virginia for a...

Leon Bass's mother always told him he did not need to use violence to solve a problem. His friends were tough guys....

On 10 June 1942 Sidney LaPook graduated from NYU Dental College. He became engaged to his future wife that same day. At...

Victor Fienup does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th...

Joseph Krause recalls that he didn't keep his flight log book up to date while he flew the requisite 30 missions to...

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown was born in Washington D.C. and lived there for the first 17 years of his life. Washington D.C. was...

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