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When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Rothacker Smith served as a medic in the Army in Italy during World War 2 where he was wounded and later captured by...

John Baldori served overseas in the Mediterranean [Annotator’s Note: under US Army General Mark Wayne Clark] and...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

Frederick Amore was transferred to Payne Field in Cairo, Egypt and, because there were too many mechanics there, he did...

Thomas D. Thompson enlisted [Annotator's Note: in the Navy in early 1943] because he has a fierce love of his country....

George Henry Rosenberg [Annotator's Note: with the 721st Bombardment Squadron, 450th Bombardment Group, 47th...

Much of what William Blanckenburg is talking about is in his book [Annotators Note: Blankenburg authored a book titled...

On his second voyage [Annotator's Note: as an engineering officer aboard the SS Vernon L. Kellogg], Clarke Langrall was...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

When Charles Coolidge landed in Southern France there was little opposition after the major shelling the Germans took...

Robert Jagers' orders were to report to Columbia University [Annotator's Note: Columbia University in New York, New...

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