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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...

Harold Hall Ashton was born in May 1919 in Shed, Oregon. He grew up in a family with four children. All four siblings,...

Rothacker Smith felt the joy of liberation sweep over him when he saw American soldiers hoist the Stars and Stripes...

Robert Clifford Pryor [Annotator's Note: with the 92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division]...

One of Ralph F. Lafferty's friends had been a ski instructor before the war. He was a wonderful skier, and they became...

After Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. was released from the hospital in the United States, he was assigned to the 78th...

Kassal was sent back to the United States for five weeks before finally making it overseas. They traveled through...

[Annotator's Note: Frank Finklang served with the 419th Bombardment Squadron, 301st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force...

Freddie Ohr went from Corsica Italy to Medina, Italy. They flew out of there on a short steel runway. They flew all of...

Gowan Duffy remembers they started to run out of supplies. Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George...

Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

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

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