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Wallace Hurley recounts the story of his admired company commander who was killed while capturing two Germans. The...

Maurice Zolkower was told he would receive a helmet with a Red Cross on it and be transferred to the 92nd Mechanized...

[Annotators Note: Robert Murphy served in the army as a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

Harley Bridger's crew was sent to Mitchell Field on Long Island, New York. They were assigned a new airplane and they...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

Robert Gaylord Furrow felt like his service made him a better man. He thinks every young man should be given military...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

In June 1943, two weeks before his 18th birthday, William M. Barnett was given permission to leave prep school [...

James Siracuse was born in Upper Manhattan [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1920. He was raised there. He...

Gale Ammerman was wearing a regular combat jacket and trousers, carried a .45 caliber pistol [Annotator's Note: .45...

Morris Eugene Day ended up in the Ruhr Pocket [Annotator's Note: a massive Allied encirclement of German forces in the...

Eugene Yackel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry...

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