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

Carl Peterson landed on Omaha beach with the 26th Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st...

A year after Raymond Wells was shipped to Okinawa Joyce joined him there. At the time there was very little in terms of...

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

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard and spent fourteen months in the Mediterranean on the SS Houston...

During World War 2, Clifford Smith thought he was on an adventure. He does not consider himself as a hero, conqueror,...

Walter Ehlers moved his squad up the hill to the trenches [Annotator's Note: during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6...

Mary T. Heany was born in July 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. They had a nice house. She walked to school with her brother...

Arthur Frangello did not have any issues adjusting to civilian life. He was happy to make it back. Some of his friends...

On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was told he was receiving a battlefield...

Gowan Duffy does not think he came across any man in shock. Some of the men in his unit were dragging because of...

Bruce LaRose thinks the military did an amazing job during World War 2. LaRose had great penmanship when he was younger...

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