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Billy P. Bassett was born in December 1924 in Deep River, Iowa. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa with his brother and two...

Dominick Sgobbo and his two fellow sergeants answered when the SS officer asked for the guys in charge. They were taken...

Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...

Norris Bucksell says that Rome, Italy is hard to beat. The war ending was great, but Rome was the best. Even the buses...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...

Joseph R. Romano [Annotator's Note: gun captain aboard the USS LCM-1010] was part of a six-ship flotilla that bombarded...

During the voyage overseas, Morris Eugene Day helped treat the men who got seasick. He was able to eat the Navy food,...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

Three days into a march [Annotator's Note: from their prisoner of war camp], Gilbert Clift and the rest of the...

In Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth Gibbens worked in a veterans' hospital for a few months, but quit when she became...

Clinton Gardner went back to England and stayed in the field hospital. He had an operation using skin from his leg to...

Jack Albert Del Monte had never been in a tank before being given two days of training on how to drive one. He was then...

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