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Fred Topel was called in for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] and was flown...

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

Robert Tyler Oakes was a radio operator [Annotator's Note: on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber in the 340th...

At Kasserine Pass Edward LaPorta was set up at about the middle of the pass. They were on an outpost and there was a...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

From his vantage point, Charles Kitowski could tell that the war was shifting in favor of the Allies. The Italian...

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

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

Timothy Mahoney left the military older. The war made him more responsible. When he left the service, he was married...

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

In Italy, William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces] would only see Italians when he was...

Howard T. Maki found that the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: the Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...

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