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Lamm, Edwin Reflections
Edwin Lamm's most memorable experience of World War 2 was picking up a crash of a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator hea
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LaMura, Jerry Combat in Germany
Jerry LaMura received his basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma on artillery. They were being trained as replacements.
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LaMura, Jerry Postwar Life
Jerry LaMura was sent to a hospital in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York] and then to Washington D.C.
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LaMura, Jerry Prewar Life
Jerry LaMura was born in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan, New York City, New York] in June 1925.
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LaMura, Jerry Reflections
Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944] and g
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Landrum, Thomas England and France
The British treated the American soldiers, including Thomas Landrum, very well. The French did too.
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Landrum, Thomas Last Thoughts
Thomas Landrum was an Army clerk at a school in England. It was an engineering school.
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Landrum, Thomas Postwar Life
The war in Japan had ended when Thomas Landrum returned home from Europe.
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Landrum, Thomas Prewar Life to England
Thomas Landrum was born in April 1919 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father was a painter and paper hanger.
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Landry, Coleen Air Raid Drills, Her Brother Being Wounded and the End of the War
Coleen Landry's father was an air raid warden and drills would be held weekly.
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Landry, Coleen Feelings Towards the Enemy
Coleen Landry remembers when her parents were told that her brother Reed was missing in action. It took about a month for them to hear he was ok.
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Landry, Coleen Final Thoughts
Coleen Landry went into law enforcement part-time to help with public relations. It was not easy being one of the first women in law enforcement.