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Edward J. Leonard remembers going into Rome [Annotator’s Note: Rome, Italy]. They had not had any sleep for a few days...

William Blanckenburg was alongside a creek and the Germans were on the other side. This was before Blanckenburg got...

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

It was dark and they were trying to figure a way out [Annotators Note: after landing on Anzio]. They stumbled upon some...

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

Walter Barnes was born in New Orleans and grew up on Webster Street in the Uptown neighborhood. Life was good for him....

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich was not changed by his POW [Annotator’s Note: prisoner of war] experiences. Some Germans were...

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

Lawrence Yatsu went to Fort Meade, Maryland when he left Camp Blanding. From there they went overseas on a troopship....

Norman Raner and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Raner served as a scout in 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Company I, 3rd...

Claude L. Lewis remembers they had to dig foxholes. The Germans had left big piles of sandbags. They could see the...

Frank Mancuso’s unit went back to Naples to get more replacements and newer landing craft, landing onshore without...

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