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New Information from a Visit to the Archives

August 25, 2014

I visited the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis on Friday. There wasn’t much to see. The file mostly contained my correspondence from 20 years ago. But there was some new information about Babe’s war injury. … More New Information from a Visit to the Archives

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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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