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Ralph “Bud” Ginrich made a few friends in the prison camps [Annotator’s Note: he had been captured at Sidi Bou Zid,...

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

Edward Lalande was born in Moreauville, Louisiana in March 1919. He had three brothers and three sisters. He had a good...

Norman Kinsey felt the operation he was in was not going anywhere. A call came out for a cadre to form a new...

Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...

Ralph F. Lafferty did not get to see his brother often, despite being in the same regiment [Annotator's Note: Lafferty...

Charles Scheffel notes that had anyone else been there they would have done the same thing. There are people fighting...

While he was a prisoner in Italy, Paul Carter nearly starved. Before leaving Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] his...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] participated...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

Joseph Hochadel and his squad started down the road and a German tank began to shell them. It was traumatic and they...

In late May 1945, because Frank Finklang did not have enough points to go home, he was transferred to 346th Bombardment...

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