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Rothacker Smith began selling root beer to construction workers at projects around Detroit during the Great Depression...

Training in North Africa concentrated on mortar combat and night missions, according to Henry Baughman, and when the...

When Edward LaPorta was in training all of the guys in the outfit were very good friends. After going through their...

The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...

Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...

Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were...

Crain was 1 of the seaman in the boat. They were on a transport ship originally. When Crain was on the transport ship...

By 17, Herman Pbert was a construction engineer [Annotator's Note: in Piedicavallo, Italy]. In the meantime, the war...

[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches throughout the segment.] Roy D. Goad [Annotator’s Note: a lieutenant in the 143rd...

Thomas Michael Holt was born in July 1919 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. His father was head of a military school. Most...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

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