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Chester L. Talley was not too anxious to go overseas and serve in World War 2, but since he had no choice, he tried to...

Walter Barnes did not see much of a change in New Orleans when he returned after the war. Before the war he and his...

Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...

Wilburn K. Ross stayed behind because he felt that he was able to stop the Germans. He had confidence in his ability to...

George Tamburello was born in February 1924 in Staten Island, New York. He was raised on a farm in in the rural...

Once sent back to New Orleans, Frank Mancuso was assigned as a special services officer [Annotators Note: at Camp Leroy...

As Anzio [Annotator's Note: Battle of Anzio, 22 January 1944 to 5 June 1944, Anzio, Italy] was tailing out [Annotator's...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Nicholas John Compagno and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat...

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: in pilot training in Texas after the war] was on the honors committee in the cadets...

For Gerard Halpern the trip from the United States to Italy was unremarkable except that they ran out of food near the...

In May 1944, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. completed all of his training and shipped out for Foggia, Italy where he joined...

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