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Harold Hall Ashton was born in May 1919 in Shed, Oregon. He grew up in a family with four children. All four siblings,...

Frank Finklang quickly learned from the "old timers" to hold onto K-rations [Annotator's Note: individual daily combat...

After Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. was released from the hospital in the United States, he was assigned to the 78th...

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

Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in Normandy after...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

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

When Norman Raner got in the landing craft, he was told that the driver had landed on the beach three times, so Raner...

Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] knew he was going to Africa [Annotator's Note: in March...

At the end of the war Vernon Baker was a second lieutenant but in May of 1945 he became a first lieutenant. His...

During the invasion [Annotator's Note: the invasion of North Africa], Dominic Martello went down a rope ladder while...

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