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Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

The housing at Henry Sherman Fouts' base was very primitive. He slept on a canvas cot and had only a couple of blankets...

Hawk begins talking about how he refused to go to Washington D.C. to accept the Medal of Honor because he was tired of...

Frank Dolsen, [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] became a...

Irving Miller joined the Army in November 1943. Prior to that, he had been in the New York National Guard. He trained...

Philip Grass thinks the war helped him become a better citizen. At the time, he did not think he sacrificed anything....

When he deployed, Ubert Labat was among 14,000 troops on the Queen Mary [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Mary], including a...

Angelo Joseph Spinato went to Camp Maxey [Annotator's Note: in Lamar County, Texas] and all of the men had to stand in...

John Noack came close to washing out one time and that was in basic. One weekend they wanted to go home and see their...

After he lost his rifle, Zawada grabbed the grease gun [Annotator's Note: M3 submachine gun] from behind the driver. He...

Robert Wolff was called to active duty on 29 April 1942. He went to a class in Santa Ana [Annotator’s Note: Santa Ana,...

Lynn Compton had his orders changed so he could play baseball in Paris. He would look around for facilities for the...

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