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Day: February 4, 2012

In the 34th Infantry: ‘The Best on This Side, and I Don’t Mean Maybe’

February 4, 2012

Babe is finally posted to the unit he’ll serve for the rest of his life. … More In the 34th Infantry: ‘The Best on This Side, and I Don’t Mean Maybe’

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Letters from an Everyman in WWII Frank D. "Babe" Mauro Born, Oct. 9, 1924 Died, May 4, 1945

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