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In 1940, when Donald Strait joined the Observation Squadron [Annotator's Note: 119th Observation Squadron], it was his...

Leon Hirsch enjoyed doing advance theater work for a while but found it not lucrative enough so he took a job as a...

Darrell D. Gust's second, third and fourth missions happened one day apart. Then a fog moved in, grounding the group [...

[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon was with the 17th Airborne Division when they met up with the British 6th Airborne...

Robert W. "Bob" O'Connor [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Eugene Vaadi was assigned to the 385th Bombardment Group and flew 19 missions over Europe hitting Berlin, Nurenberg,...

John T. Fallon and the men [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment] had to make...

Following his fourth year at Wentworth [Annotator’s Note: Wentworth Military Academy and College in Lexington, Missouri...

Josephine Pescatore’s unit would leap frog with 44th Evac Hospital. One group would work while the other rested. They...

Wilbur Thomas was born in March 1923 and grew up in Swissvale, Pennsylvania with two older brothers. During the Great...

On D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Omaha [Annotator's Note:...

Stanley Jack Birnbaum fell into his landing craft before landing at one of the American beaches at Normandy about five...

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