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When Donald Beeghly got home from the war he did not know what he was going to do. There was a farmer down the road...

John Holton Ford was born in October 1921 in Hamilton, Ohio. He was also raised there. After the war, the family moved...

Somewhere before Vernon Breen crossed the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River] and got to Worms [Annotator's Note:...

One day they attacked the city of Leipzig [Annotator's Note: Germany]. It was industrial, like Birmingham, Pittsburgh,...

Richard Willett does not recall exactly where they crossed the border into Germany. They had not been told they were...

Eugene Yackel and Cranston Rogers [Annotator's Note: later US Army Colonel Cranston R. "Chan" Rogers] got along well....

By December 1944, Frank Zunno's jump school training was complete. Around Christmas Day 1944, Zunno boarded the Queen...

Henry Bodson went to West Point [Annotator's Note: United States Military Academy in West Point, New York]. It was a...

Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...

Wilbur Thomas recalled the difficulties of managing the French Army while he supervised the pipelines. He also...

James Moore Power was born in Red Banks, Mississippi in May 1925. Power’s father was the head of the Mississippi Civil...

[Annotator's Note: In March 1945, Louis Liberato was moved from the Stalag XII-A prisoner of war camp in Limburg,...

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