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Piecing Together Babe’s Last Stops Before He Went to North Africa

January 13, 2012

In a letter from the War Department to my grandmother we learned that Babe left Camp Wheeler for training in Transfer, Pa. … More Piecing Together Babe’s Last Stops Before He Went to North Africa

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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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