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Southern France [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944] was the easiest...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Albert Hatala primarily built Bailey bridges while he was serving in Italy. He also ran communication wire so...

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

Theodore Finkbeiner does not know why his unit was pulled out of its positions. When they moved into their new...

[Annotator's Note: Norman Kinsey arrived home from Europe in October 1945.] He drove down to Baton Rouge [Annotator's...

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

Claude L. Lewis was born in 1922. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic depression that...

Olin Pickens was born in December 1921 near Dumas, Mississippi in the small village of Locum. His father worked as a...

They were attempting to cross a river in order to capture an airfield that was suspected of housing German transport...

Robert Clifford Pryor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in November 1920. Growing up during the Great Depression [...

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