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Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. left the service in April 1951 as a first lieutenant. He used the G.I. Bill to take flying...

Robert Nichols Cresswell was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in April 1924. He grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania....

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

Everything was rationed during the war. George Grugett's dad told him to go to the ration board and get gas stamps. He...

Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...

Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany and taken prisoner. On 4 April 1945,...

Dan Baker was later assigned to the Vienna area command under General Mark Clark, where there was a four power command...

Peter Hirschmann was born in December 1924 in Nuremberg, Germany. He was raised there as the son of a patriotic World...

Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Walter Sapp was born in Jacksonville, Florida in January 1926. His mother was visiting her parents on vacation when he...

James "Jim" Geisler was born and raised in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was 18 years old...

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