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• History of Operations, 1-31 May, 1944, Headquarters First Battalion 337th Infantry; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:337_1st_BN_May_44.pdf.
• Hitler Youth; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth.
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• In the Service, The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, December 31, 1944.
• Into the Jaws of Death, by Chief Photographer’s Mate (CPHoM) Robert F. Sargent. This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 195515, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17040973. 
• James Alexander Ulio; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Alexander_Ulio.
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• John H. Marston, U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942–1954.
• John Henry Marston Jr., Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940¬1945.
• K-9 Corps GI Rations, Evening Star, Washington, DC, May 20, 1945.
• King, William B., GI Dogs Guard Rations But Don’t Like Shells, Times Record News, Wichita Falls, Texas, February 23, 1945.
• King, William B., Report on GI Fido, The Times and Democrat, Orangeburg, South Carolina, May 17, 1945.
• Lawrence, Jack, If I Didn't Care, The Ink Spots, February 1939; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH_zodj-5Vo.
• Local Soldier Is Reported Killed in Italy: Wife in Kulpmont Notified of Death of Sgt. Andrew Gondal, Mount Carmel Item, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, May 3, 1945.
• Louisiana Maneuvers: Testing Ground to America's Armies ..., The Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, August 31, 1943.
• Louisiana Maneuvers; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Maneuvers.
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• Movement Order #9, Movement to the Volturno Redeployment Training Area, Headquarters 337th Infantry, July 6, 1945; https://www.337thinfantry.net/reports/Regiment%20Reports/Movement%20Order%20to%20Volturno%20Training%20Area%20July%201945.pdf.
• Moxley, Max, ‘Please, God, I Might Be Coming to See You’, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, April 15, 1945.
• Mr. LeRoy C. Stacks obituary, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26, 1944.
• Mrs. Hattie Evelyn Scaffe obituary, The Miami News, Miami, Florida, May 6, 1943.
• Ned Mathews Marston, Standard Certificate of Death no. 17258, Georgia State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, June 29, 1925.
• Nellie Marston, Standard Certificate of Death no. 17490, Georgia State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, June 9, 1925.
• Normandy landings; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings.
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• Operation Diadem; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Diadem.
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• Personal collection of letters written by Johnnie Marston to Lucile Stacks Marston dating 1939 to 1945.
• Personal memories of Randy Marston.
• Pfc. Horace E. Harpold interment card, U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962.
• Pfc. Horace E. Harpold tombstone photo (Find a Grave Memorial 755551), used with permission from LKat, Find A Grave member ID 47116782. June 27, 2020.
• Pfc. James M. Lamb Promoted to Corporal, The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, December 31, 1944.
• Pfc. James M. Lamb receives Combat Infantryman Badge, The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, December 20, 1944.
• Photo - US troops aboard the USS Gen. Harry Taylor reverse their route back to NY, August 11, 1945, National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_troops_aboard_the_USS_Gen._Harry_Taylor_reverse_their_route_back_to_NY._-_NARA_-_195339.jpg.
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• Purple Heart; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Heart.
• Report Card, Lee Elementary School, Scholastic Year 1934 to 1935, Johnnie Marston.
• Rhetta Olivia Doom Tubbs, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, April 24, 1999.
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• Ronciglione; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronciglione.
• Scaffe, Mrs. Herbert, handwritten letter to Johnnie Marston, November 3, 1943. 
• Selective Training and Service Act of 1940; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940.
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• Sgt. Andrew Gondal Wounded in Italy, Mount Carmel Item, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1944.
• Sgt. James Lamb Wins Silver Star, The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, May 31, 1945.
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• Stab Victim, 19, Dies; Man Held, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26, 1944.
• Stab Victim, 19, Dies; Man Held, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26, 1944.
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• Three Murder Bills Returned, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, March 29, 1944.
• Times Square Ball; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square_Ball.
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• U.S. Federal Census, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, 1920.
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• USS Florence Nightingale, public domain; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10312720.
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• USS Lyon (AP-71); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lyon_(AP-71).
• USS West Virgina (BB-48) burning at Pearl Harbor 1941, U.S. Navy, Office of Public Relations, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USS_West_Virgina_(BB-48)_burning_at_Pearl_Harbor_1941.jpg.
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• V-mail; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail.
• V-Mail: The WWII program that scanned letters onto microfilm, 1942-1945, Rare Historical Photos; https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/v-mail-photos/.
• War Memories Vivid in Salute, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, June 6, 1998.
• What's Going on At Camp Howze, p. 3, Denton, Record-Chronicle, February 25, 1943
• What’s Going on At Camp Howze, p. 2, Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, Texas, April 5, 1943.
• Widow to Get Medal, The Atlanta Constitution, April 30, 1944.
• With the Army, Navy, and Marines, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, June 9, 1944.
• With the Army-Navy and Marines, p. 21, The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, August 27, 1944.
• With the Army-Navy, and Marines, The Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1944.
• With the Army-Navy, and Marines, The Atlanta Constitution, June 9, 1944.
• Wounded in Italy, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, January 25, 1945.
• World War 2 Victory Medal (public domain); WorldWar2VictoryMedalUS.JPG.
• World War II recruiting poster for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22WE_CLEAR_THE_WAY_-_ENGINEERS%22,_1941_-_1945.jpg.
• World War II - Louisiana Maneuvers, Battlefield of Louisiana; https://web.archive.org/web/20100412054750/http://www.beau.org/~velmer/local/ww2.html.
• World War II Victory Medal (United States); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_(United_States). 
• WWII - Italy - Allies Push Near the Po Valley, video, realmilitaryflix; https://youtu.be/iMAqqq574Rk?si=iTJZ4b0vhsKtt1HQ.

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