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Gerard Dillon only had one situation where someone refused to jump. They were going to make a practice jump in France....

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was sent to basic training anticipating that he would join the Air Corps. Instead he...

Alfred Dietrick was born in December 1921 in San Antonio, Texas. His life was happy. His father was a carpenter when he...

Walter N. Gaterman was born in Saint Louis in December 1921. He was in the printing trade before the war. He heard...

On 5 June [Annotator's Note: 5 June 1944], Arthur Levine [Annotator's Note: 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

[Annotator's Note: Robert L. Williams served in the Army as a paratrooper in Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th...

They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS Bayfield, near Okinawa] for about twelve days...

John Bache-Wiig, Jr. went to Mather Field in Sacramento [Annotator's Note: Sacramento, California] for special unit...

For Harley Reynolds, it was extremely emotional going back to Normandy for the first time. Reynolds and the honorary...

Jackson applied at Pomona College using the GI Bill. He was accepted and eventually graduated from there. He was still...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was assigned to the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Armored Division.] They...

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