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William Balabanow was born in February 1926 in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. His stepfather was a miner. During the...

Claude L. Lewis remembers they had to dig foxholes. The Germans had left big piles of sandbags. They could see the...

Herman Pbert was born in July 1926 in Piedicavallo, Italy near the Swiss border. His father had a construction business...

Sometime in the early summer of 1943, Norman Kinsey moved south of Casablanca to Berrechid [Annotator's Note: Berrechid...

The horrible times for F.M. Richard Simons were mortars and trying not to fall asleep in his foxhole. Once, they heard...

Ralph F. Lafferty was born in December 1918 in Portland Oregon. He had to older brothers, but one of them died of...

Reneau Breard was stationed in the mountains of Italy near Naples [Annotator’s Note: Naples, Italy]. His unit was...

Edward Lalande returned to the States [Annotator's Note: United States] in a convoy. He had been in Oran [Annotator's...

At one point, Paul Carter was in an action where he put more ammunition through his rifle than at any other time. What...

Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. reported to Langley Field, Virginia. He practiced a lot of formation flying, air to...

Albert Hatala was glad to be part of World War 2. One of his most memorable experiences is when he got shrapnel in his...

The experience of seeing the kids wanting American candy, and the subsequent revelation of the ship that had passed...

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