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77 years with a metal heart

Seventy-seven years after he was shot in 1943, there’s still shrapnel in Frank’s chest they weren’t able to remove.
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Bill’s War

Autobiography by Bill Hutcherson, who first attempted to join the Royal Canadian Navy when he was only 16 years old.
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Bombs Away

Reginald Harrop woke up, confused. He was on a large cruise ship that should have been heading off across the Atlantic, with a convoy of 10-20 ships. But when he looked outside, they were alone, and the Rock of Gibraltar was towering over him.
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When the sound stops

The electrical lines wind off into the distance. Footsteps and soft murmurs echo through the tunnel as mothers come forward, cradling cardboard boxes. Inside the boxes, swaddled in blankets, is one of the only things they were able to bring with...
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A little right rudder

Autobiography by Bill Smyth As I am one of the last remaining Lancaster Bomber pilots still breathing, this tale should be most unique. A massive daylight raid was laid on for the city of Cologne, Germany, after the Battle of the Bulge. The...
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Not yet 18 and fighting for freedom

Autobiography by Audrey Yorke I was born in England, in Bedford, in 1924. In those days, unless your parents were wealthy and could send you to private school, you left school at age 14. After working in a dry goods store until I was 16, I went...