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When John Laster got to Great Lakes, Illinois for boot training, he became a part of Company 1595, 36th Battalion, 23rd...
Melvin Linkous and his company [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division]...
James Marks was assigned to the USS Nassau (CVE-16), an escort aircraft carrier, as a chaplain. It was not a very fast...
Donelson Houseman believes that the magnitude of the German offensive [Annotator's Note: the German Ardennes Offensive...
In November [Annotator's Note: November 1944], Kenneth H. Bailey's outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters...
Glenn Roysdon last saw his brother, Dale, in 1941 or 1942 when he brought his car home before he was shipped overseas [...
Melvin Abadie assisted in the landing at Guam after the original landing. They first bombarded Guam before the landing...
Reginald Duncan was born in February 1922 in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in Kearny, New Jersey with his parents and...
Elmo Espree's troop ship sailed from Australia for the Bay of Bengal in India. In India, Espree went through the Ganges...
William Harvey was stationed on a big island named Burrwood [Annotator's Note: Burrwood, Louisiana]. The United States...
The Belgian and Dutch civilians were nice people. Sam V. Abate felt like he was at home. Belgium was alright but it was...
Benjamin Clark Amsden transitioned to flying the Corsair [Annotator's Note: Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft after...
While in Calcutta, George Rudloff developed physical activities in which the American soldiers could participate. There...
At Sioux City, the ground crew was completing their training and going on last leaves. One day, the first sergeant...
Bernice Trotter was assigned to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County...
Roy Stewart went to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California...
James Jeter was drafted in 1944 but did not pass the physical examination at Fort Humbug [Annotator’s Note: in...
Richard Keller was at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he was asked to be...
Tom Quigley recounts how he was in church when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place and did not even know about the...
Marvin Sussman's first combat experience took place in the village of Rocheville [Annotator's Note: Rocheville, France...
Robert Payne went to one concentration camp and it was as has been described. He never saw any Americans who had been...
Cape Gloucester was a rough campaign for Arthur Pendelton. They captured prisoners. Some of the fellas that had lost...
Frank H. O'Leary and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...
After being turned down by the Navy for being blind in one eye, Clifton Trahan was accepted into the US Merchant Marine...
Chafer Honea was on his way to Nuremberg, Germany with C Battery, 433rd Antiaircraft Battalion, 939th Field Artillery...
Robert W. McDonald went to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey] for...
Raymond Hayes and his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Tortuga (LSD-26)] went to different places in China, delivering food...
Robert Brant wanted to be transferred to new duties on an escort ship going to the Philippines after spending 11 months...
Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...
George Culpepper was in Farragut, Idaho for school for about three months [Annotator's Note: after enlisting in the...
Eugene Henry Gierka's most memorable experience was his being exposed as an interpreter to a couple hundred Polish...
Seymour Reitman returned to Europe and went to the Elsenborn Camp [Annotator's Note: the area of Elsenborn Ridge in...
Jim Stumpfa sang the US Coast Guard song while they were marching. He enjoyed the exercise. He did not like the middle-...
In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], Bowdre McDowell went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note:...
When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell left the bigger ship that took him overseas, he patrolled mountainous islands and...
Not much during combat stands out for Alan Moskin. Once in a while near the end, he would get R...

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