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Frank Mancuso’s unit went back to Naples to get more replacements and newer landing craft, landing onshore without...

Gowan Duffy remembers that in between battles, his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 141st Field Artillery Battalion] would...

Chester L. Talley was on a fighter base in Foggia [Annotator’s Note: Foggia, Italy]. He also remembered when he heard...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

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

Freddie Ohr was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Group overseas. They were flying Spitfires. Ohr learned how to fly the...

Howard T. Maki had a section sergeant who was a good looking guy who looked like a soldier. The man fell apart near the...

They shipped out in late September [Annotator's Note: September 1942] and landed in North Africa on 8 November 1942....

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

William Banghart remembers Rommel [Annotator's Note: German Army Generalfeldmarschall, or Field Marshal, Johannes Erwin...

Edwin Sved was born in February 1924 in New York, New York and grew up through difficult times in a caring family. He...

Charles Kitowski went into the war as a boy and came out as a man. He matured and became conscious of what was going on...

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