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For Henry Phillips Sicily was a cake walk. They landed in Palermo from a big transport. The Germans used aircraft...

Robert Jagers' ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-351] had no defensive weapons. They started out with three-inch 50s...

On his fifth and final mission to Ploesti [Annotator’s Note: Ploesti, Romania], Theodore “Ted” R. Rogal [Annotator’s...

The next morning Frank Mancuso is awoken by a lieutenant. He quickly learned that his unit had moved out of the city....

Of all the ground crew personnel, Edwin Sved recalled only one with whom his crew got close. He told the tale of a...

Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...

One night when they were after a target, the skipper dropped this white handkerchief and James Nerison heard him give...

Freddie Ohr was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Group overseas. They were flying Spitfires. Ohr learned how to fly the...

Around February or March 1943, Robert Jagers was told to report to LST-351 [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-351, a...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

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