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By John Elliff,Denny Dressman

beginning in 2000, 36 international battle II veterans sat down for recorded interviews with Dr. John Elliff to keep in mind their commonly various stories instantly earlier than, all through, and after WWII. the gathering of veterans--all from Sterling and surrounding rural northeastern Colorado--represents a notable microcosm of yankee through the struggle years of the Forties. The Sterling Heroes served within the military, military, Air Corps and Marines, and in each significant conflict and strive against theater, from Europe and North Africa to the Aleutians and South Pacific. One got here to the United States as an Italian POW and stayed for sixty five years. each one veteran's tale is a bankruptcy. Meet The Pearl Survivor, The Flying Ace, The Intrepid Escapee, The Coincidental sufferer, The Indomitable POW, The Dachau Liberator, The four a.m. Messenger and lots of extra. including to the first-person money owed of those brave males are greater than one hundred seventy historic References--carefully researched information regarding battles, destinations, ships, planes and other people that have been a part of the lives of those males throughout the warfare. Poignant. Harrowing. funny. awesome. This booklet chronicles a interval in America's heritage that electorate of every age this present day want to know and appreciate.

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