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James Read Kirk got out of the war as a staff sergeant in September 1945. He immediately went to college. He used the...

James Nerison learned how to handle the boat [Annotator's Note: PT boat], fix the engine, and operate the radio...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] was active in the bitter fighting through the...

On their way back to the United States, they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and his crew] had to make a stop in the...

Vernon Baker retired in Idaho. One day he got a call from Professor Gibran at Shaw University. He asked what Baker knew...

The Germans brought Dominic Frank Poliseno and his fellow prisoners to a camp in Brandenburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag...

Raymond Wells was by himself with a .30 caliber machine gun and took out three enemy snipers. He moved to San Pietro...

Harley Reynolds recognizes that the invasion [Annotators Note: the invasion of Sicily] was fairly easy in terms of...

Fred Topel decided to go into the National Guard with a few other friends. He was only 16 years old, so he had to lie...

Shiyuza Hayashi was informed in 1999 that he was being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor [Annotator's Note: the...

Once the war ended, the medical doctors left by airplane, leaving no one in charge [Annotator's Note: of the 120th...

Gowan Duffy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1920. He would bounce from one job to another because they...

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