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‘I Have Been Slightly Wounded in the Right Fifth Toe’

June 24, 2014

Babe hurried out this quick letter in hopes that the news would reach his parents this way before the War Department telegram got there. … More ‘I Have Been Slightly Wounded in the Right Fifth Toe’

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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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