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Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

William Lutz thought there would be more firing of weapons. He sat behind a machine gun. It was different from the...

Robert Leroy Shirkey was selected to join the Alamo Scouts [Annotator's Note: 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit] in...

For Paul Hilliard, The National WWII Museum obtaining an SBD [Annotators Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] is a...

After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...

Claude Bufford Shaw grew up around Carson Lake [Annotator's Note: Carson Lake, Arkansas] until he was about 11 years...

Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers...

The "glorious" starting salary Theodore Pavlovich was earning in the Army came to 21 dollars a month, from which he...

Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to...

Lawrence Wulf was born in Avoca, Nebraska in May 1919. His father was a farmer but was also the director of a bank his...

Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....

Rollins Rosenzweig was born in 1924 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. His father was a prosperous man who had a grocery store...

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