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W. P. “Bill” Allen was assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] which hit a mine not far the...

Edward Riedl was waiting for his girlfriend to come out of her house when he was told Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

James Lovell's next mission was Gemini XII. This mission scheduled to be shorter than his last 14 day excursion and was...

William Dabney notes that the explosive did not have to be activated before being hauled up with the balloon. They...

Edward Dunne went to England and then made Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France aboard the USS LST-53] as one...

Josephine Pescatore got to the evacuation hospital with nothing but a small handbag. She had no supplies like a mess...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Eugene Overcash served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 501st...

Richard Asbury flew 126 missions in the war. He only got into fights six times. He thought he was unlucky in...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn was a prisoner of war after his aircraft was shot down on 12 April 1944.] After...

Holly Rees was born in January 1926 in Prescott, Arizona. Although he grew up during the Great Depression, his father...

James Livaudais flew in a glider over Allied shipping in the English Channel on his route to land in Normandy on D-Day...

Richard Audler's unit [Annotator's Notes: Carrier Aircraft Service Unit (Forward) 13 or CASU(F)-13] was stationed on...

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