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COMBAT STORIES FROM World War II

Mel Plate | Battery C, 594th Anti Aircraft Artillery AWS Battalion, APO 949 - Army

6:08   |   When Mel Plate was assigned to an anti-aircraft battery in the Aleutians, the weather conditions were so bad, the Quonset huts had to be buried to resist the wind. Communications were not so great, either, and he tells of the frustration surrounding the news of the birth of his son.

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