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Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

Charles Scheffel was born in Eden, Oklahoma in 1919. His father was an illegal immigrant from Sweden and passed away...

Vernon Baker continues to describe his Medal of Honor actions in Italy. He began cutting wire on the hill. The wire was...

[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and escaping from a prisoner of war camp] Olin Pickens and a fellow prisoner,...

Clifford Smith's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German horse troop surrendered to his unit [...

T. Moffatt Burriss spent two and a half years overseas. The Waal River crossing [Annotator’s Note: during Operation...

Merrill J. Clark's first operation [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment,...

The worst part of the fighting for Johnny Ngai was fighting in to Cassino [Annotator's Note: Cassino, Italy]. Rocks and...

In February 1943, Nicholas Ventura Sr. [Annotator’s Note: with the 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division]...

Frank Mancuso adopted a 20 month old girl from Ludwigsburg with his wife while in Germany. When his father in law...

Edward LaPorta does not recall anything special about the battles at Gafsa and El Guettar. Battles are all the same....

John Vessey goes by Jack. His father was John and his son is named John and his grandson is named Jack. They all...

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