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The Day After Thanksgiving, Happy for the Feast He Enjoyed

February 27, 2012

“I had turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, olives, cake, peas, dressing, bread, jam and coffee. That meal was so tempting I just had to go back for seconds.” … More The Day After Thanksgiving, Happy for the Feast He Enjoyed

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‘All That Was Left of the Place Was a Huge Pile of Stone and Debris’

February 26, 2012

Babe recalls that his parents told him he had cousins living in Eboli. Here, he briefly recounts what he recently saw there. … More ‘All That Was Left of the Place Was a Huge Pile of Stone and Debris’

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‘I’ll Bet Italy Is a Nice Place When It Doesn’t Rain’

February 25, 2012

“All we do here all day long is building fires to dry the mud off of our feet. The reason it takes all day to dry our feet is because we have to plow through the stuff continually to get enough wood to keep the fire going.” … More ‘I’ll Bet Italy Is a Nice Place When It Doesn’t Rain’

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His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army

February 23, 2012

“United States Army says that river bed is no longer a river bed, but a road, so now it is a road. I get quite a laugh out of that every time I think of it.” … More His Fellow Radio Operator, a Package from Home and the Silly Army

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‘A Little Yankee Ingenuity the Papers Are Always Talking About’

February 22, 2012

With a few spare parts, Babe the radio operator and some of his colleagues built a radio “to put us to sleep at night. The bloody thing plays good, too.” … More ‘A Little Yankee Ingenuity the Papers Are Always Talking About’

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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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  • 101-year-old world War II Veteran goes on Never Forgotten Honor Flight: "I enjoyed everything that we saw so far today.” - wjfw.com
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  • How the United States Planned to Use Bats as Bombs During World War II - The National Interest
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