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Erwin Blonder was trained as a Forward Observer. He began his military career in 1939. He was required to complete ROTC...

William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the SS Leslie M. Shaw (MC-0440) converted their Liberty Ship to a...

People in combat are people in combat. Hairston does not believe in women in combat. He is the father of 4 daughters...

Since there was a war, Robert Madison said, he was grateful that he got to serve, even though there was discrimination...

After contracting polio [Annotator's Note: poliomyelitis, an infectious disease that affects the central nervous system...

When Arthur Smith was finishing up in the Mediterranean, they had Mark 8 torpedoes [Annotator's Note: Bliss-Leavitt...

Jimmie Kanaya was born in Clackamas, Oregon in 1920 and grew up working on a farm from dawn to dusk. He experienced the...

Clarke Langrall was born in December 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up during the Great Depression, things were...

Robert Jagers used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Reneau Breard [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...

[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and then escaping from prison camp] Olin Pickens followed a river into...

After graduating from advanced flight training, Henry Dubay received orders to report to Kansas where he was assigned...

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