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Theodore Finkbeiner took part in the famous river crossing during Operation Market Garden [Annotators Note: the...

Darrell Welch flew 61 missions and only had one furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

Thomas D. Thompson boarded his Patrol Craft in Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] in the Lingayen Gulf [...

Charles Scheffel had about 5,000 dollars in a musette bag. He got into a jeep with a driver who was from New York City...

Glover Pugh was selected for his job because he was so small, only weighing 120 pounds. The sergeant took him under his...

Odell Vaughn's reunion with his wife and new child was great. His boy was 21 months old when Vaughn first saw him....

Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. was sent to Camp Gordon [Annotator's Note: now Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia] to prepare for...

After basic training, Bruce Estes was shipped to Naples, Italy where he joined a 60mm mortar squad [Annotator's Note:...

Dr. Roscoe Brown feels that Washington D.C. was an ambivalent city when it came to race. When they got to Virginia they...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich made a few friends in the prison camps [Annotator’s Note: he had been captured at Sidi Bou Zid,...

Southern France [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944] was the easiest...

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