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[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

Charles Scheffel did not know what to do when people start shooting at him but he realized that he had to do something...

After the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot the action really slowed down for Alex Vraciu. There was a lot of argument over...

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

Freddie Ohr was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Group overseas. They were flying Spitfires. Ohr learned how to fly the...

There were a lot of cases where there were no NCOs [Annotator's Note: non-commissioned officers]. Roland Chaisson says...

Dr. Roscoe Brown feels that Washington D.C. was an ambivalent city when it came to race. When they got to Virginia they...

William Leo Spaetgens had his life changed by the Second World War. If a person could not work for something or pay for...

For Charles Coolidge, success [Annotators Note: success in combat] continued in Italy. His unit [Annotators Note:...

Frank Mancuso next went to Bessence [Annotators Note: unsure of spelling], France where his commanding officer gave him...

For Gerard Halpern the trip from the United States to Italy was unremarkable except that they ran out of food near the...

Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

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