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

Herman Pbert was in the hospital as the war was ending. He was told he had done a good job cleaning his own shrapnel...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] participated...

Joseph Hochadel and his squad started down the road and a German tank began to shell them. It was traumatic and they...

Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr., joined the service because he wanted to fly. He chose the Army Air Corps because he...

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

Lawrence Yatsu got a medical discharge. He had been in the hospital for over six months when he got his CDD, or...

Thomas Michael Holt [Annotator's Note: a Second Lieutenant with the 1st Ranger Battalion] and his men were put on a...

Olin Pickens was born in December 1921 near Dumas, Mississippi in the small village of Locum. His father worked as a...

Alexander Jefferson named his plane "Margot" after his classmate's sister. She attended graduation when Jefferson...

Of all the prisoners Gerard Halpern interrogated there is one who really stands out to him. The man was a German Army...

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