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Melvin Munch stopped at Guam en route to Okinawa. He was concerned about the requirements of going into a war zone. He...
Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...
William Lee Barnes does not remember seeing the island of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], but he does...
On 1 April 1945, James Stewart Rosenbaum, and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th...
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...
The Japanese had done a real job of planting all kinds of explosives [Annotator's Note: on Peleliu]. Arthur Jackson...
Charles Stix took an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to the invasion of Peleliu [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu,...
William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] arrived at...
Albert G. Sutcliffe and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division...
Following the battle of Okinawa, Richard Witaker learned more about Japanese strategies and preparations for the Marine...
After a few days, Meyer "Mike" Levin's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 489th Armored Field Artillery, 7th Armored...
Theodore Noel Carder and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division] was...
When the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December...
Horace Sharp arrived in Le Havre, France following his deployment from the United States. The town was utterly...
Otis Barnes remembers they were getting artillery shells and they knew something was coming up. They had no warning...
Edward "Babe" Heffron went to Bastone for his next mission [Annotator's Note: this occurred at the outset of the Battle...
Leon Bass went from England to France. They [Annotator's Note: the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion (Colored)] got...
Joseph Kagan remembers the ship [Annotator’s Note: going overseas] was crowded. He was an officer and had a room to...
James Albert Kitts then went to Pembroke to Camp Lamphey [Annotator's Note: Camp Lamphey, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England...
The Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December 1944...
Jack Carver felt that he [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] had caught the Army flatfooted. The American...
[Annotator's Note: Vernon Tweedt was hospitalized in Southampton, England for hepatitis, an inflammatory condition of...
Harry Bell served in Company F, 422nd Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 106th Infantry Division] as a mortar gunner...
After Christmas [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944], Joseph J. Drake was in the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note...
[Annotator's Note: Elmer Knudsen served in the Army as a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment,...
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] had never...
Morris Eugene Day's first day on the line was 13 December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Joseph Yourkavitch took part in the Tennessee Maneuvers in late March 1944 [Annotator's Note: as a member of Company C...
Peter Harry fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Snow and winter began to set in and then the Battle of the Bulge began....
Raymond Burchell walked from Holland back to France. They came upon a British motor pool who transported the men back....
During the Battle of the Bulge, Norris Waddill was serving as a messenger. He came upon a sergeant he had met before...
Charles R. Smith [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry...
Vernon Brantley was in Aachen, Germany when the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
William Pena recalls the situation in the Ardennes before the Germans arrived, how they laid tripwires and mines. They...
Steve Sivak [Annotator's Note: a supply clerk in the 72nd Publicity Service Battalion, 3rd Army] made his way from...
Every morning, Carl Light and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored...

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