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

James Read Kirk was born in September 1924 in Watseka, Illinois. His parents moved to the Detroit area [Annotator's...

Freddie Ohr was born in Portland, Oregon in 1919. When he was four years old they moved to Idaho where Ohr grew up. Ohr...

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

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., joined the service because he wanted to fly. He chose the Army Air Corps because he...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...

Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...

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

Paul Maymon was born in June 1920 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked with a fabric company until it...

At Kasserine Pass Edward LaPorta was set up at about the middle of the pass. They were on an outpost and there was a...

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

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

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