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Shirley Guidry and his unit [Annotator's Note: the 1143rd Engineer Combat Group serving in Europe] took continuous...

Joseph Taliancich was born in Louisiana in 1920. His father came over from Yugoslavia and went into the oyster business...

Risto Milosevich grew up in East Los Angeles, California. During summer vacation he would repair concrete driveways to...

An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...

In 1949, Robert Haffner helped establish the Detroit Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association and served as...

Harley Bridger was a radio operator. He learned to use a lead ball to help with his radio transmitter. The B-24 [...

Biddle recalls finding the pilots from the downed JU 88 [Annotators Note: in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge]....

Edward Shames participated in the battle of Carentan [Annotator's Note: 10 to 14 June 1944]. Shames says that the...

Rita Brandes stayed with her sister and her husband [Annotator's Note: Brandes left Bremen, Germany as a teenager and...

Jerome Harold Black was born in November 1921 in Brooklyn, New York. He was eight when, in 1929, his dad bought a dress...

They had a big fireplace, but it turned out to be a mock fireplace; the place was heated by steam. They lived in the...

Wayne O. Hill thought it was his patriotic duty to go to war. He had to join the Army because of his eyesight. He...

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