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By 17, Herman Pbert was a construction engineer [Annotator's Note: in Piedicavallo, Italy]. In the meantime, the war...

After high school, Ralph F. Lafferty went mountain climbing with his brothers. During that summer, he worked at a ranch...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

Thomas Michael Holt was born in July 1919 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. His father was head of a military school. Most...

Frank Finklang was born in April 1924 in Saint Louis [Annotator's Note: Saint Louis, Missouri]. He served with the...

Dominick Frank Poliseno says that many of the Italians wanted to run from combat. Their little tanks were easy to knock...

After the 82nd Airborne Division finished combat operations in Normandy, Clinton Riddle and the men of the 325th Glider...

Paul Maymon was born in June 1920 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked with a fabric company until it...

Freddie Ohr flew in a P-64 and a P-35. He cannot find the P-64 in modern books about fighters. Both were forerunners to...

Gerard Halpern feels that the United States could not have avoided taking part in World War 2. The United States had...

Harold Ashton's airplane had radar in it. It was very important for him to have radar, especially over water. While...

On their way back to the United States, they [Annotator's Note: George McGovern and his crew] had to make a stop in the...

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