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Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

When they got overseas to Italy, black and white [Annotators Note: African American and Caucasian], they were a team....

Wilburn K. Ross had his molars knocked out in France by shrapnel. His company commander had sent him and about eight of...

Kanaya had no idea if everyone made it back. They got off of the train in Chicago; there was a train from the Pacific...

William Fili enlisted a few days after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...

Frank Mancuso landed in Charleston, South Carolina then he travelled on a hospital train to McKinney, Texas and then to...

A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

After high school, Ralph F. Lafferty went mountain climbing with his brothers. During that summer, he worked at a ranch...

Herman Pbert was in the hospital as the war was ending. He was told he had done a good job cleaning his own shrapnel...

Reneau Breard took part in the invasion and fighting at Anzio [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Anzio, Italy; 22 January...

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