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Barney Old Coyote started flying in December 1943. After he completed his missions, he was able to wait around for his...

Carl Peterson doesn't know how the war changed him. He has his own views on how things should be. His wife gets on him...

Harry Baughman has attended a couple of his division's [Annotator's Note: 88th Infantry Division] reunions, but family...

Vernon Baker continues to describe his Medal of Honor actions in Italy. He began cutting wire on the hill. The wire was...

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

James Read Kirk was born in September 1924 in Watseka, Illinois. His parents moved to the Detroit area [Annotator's...

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

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

Albert Porche learned to take Army life as it came. He was in Jackson, Mississippi after his enlistment. People did not...

Paul Maymon [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] was active in the bitter fighting through the...

Robert Clifford Pryor [Annotator's Note: with the 92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division] saw...

Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...

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