. . Felix Cistolo Felix Cistolo was drafted in 1942 and assigned to the 80th Infantry Division. He arrived in France on Aug. 4, 1944, and was sent immediately into combat at Falaise Gap, where the Allies killed 10,000 German troops and trapped another 50,000, although some 20,000 Germans troops managed to
. . Walter "Larry" Chrzan Larry Chrzan’s mother didn’t want him to join the Navy; she feared that if he were killed in battle at sea his body might never be found. But Larry had a compelling but personally peculiar reason to join the Navy. As a Depression-era teenager, he
. . Bob Christman As a Navy ensign during World War II, Bob Christman served as a navigator aboard the USS Sitka (APA-113), a luxury liner that had been refitted for troop transport. Back and forth from its home base in Manila, the Philippines, the Sitka plied the Pacific Ocean,
. . Edward Chekan Edward Chekan served in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946 as a radio operator and gunner aboard a PBY seaplane in the Atlantic. missing video/audio
. . Roger Carter Roger Carter entered the US Navy in September 1944 and served aboard the amphibious landing craft, LSM 476. He landed on Okinawa on Easter Sunday, 1945 and left the Navy in November 1947. missing video
. . Ralph Carrington Ralph Carrington served with the Army Air Corps during WW II. But he almost didn’t get in. When he volunteered for service in 1942, it was discovered that he was colorblind. But a year later, as the war escalated, Ralph was drafted into the Army and
