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Defying orders, Francis Neilson took pictures and kept a journal of his flights, and later put together a book that,...

Vernon Wold was born in January 1926 in Fargo, North Dakota. He grew up on a farm with an aunt after his parents died...

R.M. Wilkes was born in July 1923 in Georgia. His father was a pharmacist in the small town of Cobbville [Annotator's...

James Anthony Gabour was born in October 1913 in Texarkana, Texas. He grew up with five brothers and four sisters. His...

Maurice Zolkower had promised to marry his girlfriend, so he finalized the nuptials in six weeks [Annotator’s Note:...

George Miles [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] met Polette...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Irwin Medway was the runner for his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 414th Infantry Regiment, 104th...

William Pena remembers how his battalion commander was a gung-ho, brave, and tall man who refused to stay at the rear...

For the Rhine crossing, the 17th Airborne Division was supposed to jump before they [Annotator's Note: the 313th...

Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...

John Witmeyer harbored an intense anger toward German soldiers. He punched German prisoners in the face, ran bayonets...

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