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When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Much of what William Blanckenburg is talking about is in his book [Annotators Note: Blankenburg authored a book titled...

One night, Anna Maria Giamberardino and a friend decided to go see where the couples would hang out. They saw some men...

Harley Reynolds notes that by one in the morning they stopped and rested. The next morning they were in position and...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert had come down with malaria while in Sicily. Gilbert recalled the good weather on the...

Robert Tyler Oakes easily adjusted to civilian life. He was glad to be home. He does not recall any posttraumatic...

Dominic Della Vedova [Annotator’s Note: serving in Company D, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry...

William Banghart drove a lieutenant in a general’s jeep. This could have led to a court martial. Banghart was in the...

From his vantage point, Charles Kitowski could tell that the war was shifting in favor of the Allies. The Italian...

In addition to making him more alert, the war also improved Walter Broll's outlook on life. In meeting a former Me-109...

In Italy, William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a member of the US Army Air Forces] would only see Italians when he was...

When Edward LaPorta was in North Africa they wore a combat suit. At night they put on heavier clothes because it gets...

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