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Duchossois, Richard Segment 1
Richard Duchossois was born in October of 1921 in Chicago. His whole family lived, and still lives, in Chicago.
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 2
Richard Duchossois knew his unit was going to be a tank destroyer unit.
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 3
Richard Duchossois and the 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion were attached to the 80th Infantry Division at the time of the fighting at Argentan.
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 4
After being wounded and recovered by his men, Richard Duchossois was put on the first train out of Verdun and taken to a hospital in Paris.
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 5
When Richard Duchossois and his unit got up into the Bulge [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Bulge] it was very cold.
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 6
Richard Duchossois and his company were set up on the south eastern tip of the Bulge [Annotators Note: during the The Battle of the Bulge].
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 7
[Annotators Note: There is dead air at the beginning of this segment.
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Duchossois, Richard Segment 8
Richard Duchossois did not witness any outbursts of anger by American servicemen. Their job was to win the war.
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Duck, Cecil Joining the Navy
Cecil N. Duck was born in August 1925 in Bay Minnette, Alabama, and when he was six years old, his family moved to Pensacola, Florida.
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Duck, Cecil Overseas Deployment to the Pacific
[Annotator’s Note: Can hear noise in the background throughout the beginning of the segment.] Cecil N. Duck served on the USS Sheridan (APA-51).
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Duck, Cecil Postwar & Reflections
Cecil N. Duck served in the Navy until 1949, then worked for a company in Pensacola, Florida before enlisting in the Air Force for 13 years.
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Duff, Clarence Atomic Bomb and War's End
Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped.