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Edward Thomas Toole wanted to join the Naval Air Force but he could not make it. The Navy appealed to him more than any...

Harold Paul [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division]...

Roy Joseph Moss was involved in many patrols while the American tanks were mired down in the mud [Annotator's Note:...

James Eyre Wainwright was born in May 1925 in Whittier, California with one twin brother and two younger brothers. They...

The local principal got him to come up there and then teachers started asking him to speak to their classes. The...

The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...

Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...

Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr.'s first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...

Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, stationed in England] flew...

Raymond VanDuzer was trained as a medic. A captain, who was a doctor, taught them how to administer morphine, bandage...

His most memorable experience of the war was when Otis Gatewood was shot and captured. There was a time when he wasn't...

Jerry LaMura received his basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on artillery. They were being trained as replacements....

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