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Kassal remembers they moved very quickly through France, through the Rhone Valley, stopping in various cities like...

William Banghart drove a lieutenant in a general’s jeep. This could have led to a court martial. Banghart was in the...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

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

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

Living in a monastery [Annotator's Note: Monastery of Saint George, Skyros, Greece], there was nothing for Jack Cohen...

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

Wilburn K. Ross grew up in Strunk, Kentucky. He worked on a farm until he was 18 then went to work in a coal mine but...

Ralph F. Lafferty was shipped back home after being wounded. He departed through the port at Naples [Annotator's Note:...

The first prison camp that Robert Tyler Oakes went to was Stalag Luft IV [Annotator's Note: Pomerania, Poland]. The...

Timothy Mahoney wanted to join the Navy because a friend of his was in the Navy. His father told him to wait until he...

Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] knew he was going to Africa [Annotator's Note: in March...

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