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Edwin Slomka was shipped overseas on the Aquitania [Annotator's Note: RMS Aquitania], which was turned into a troopship...

Raymond Zager ended up joining an army chorus group to stay busy during his occupation duty. He travelled around and...

Emory Maurice Ornelles felt World War 2 was the last good war. The Americans all pulled together and were united. They...

Going overseas was scary for Walter Sapp. He was three decks below seeing daylight. They were in a huge convoy and the...

Charles R. Smith went through Bastogne in Belgium [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th...

They thought they were going to head back to the United States. They practiced close order drill. On the 16th of...

There were 18 or 19 men on Thomas J. Blakey's plane [Annotator's Note: from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Guy Stern had landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, three days after the invasion [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944,...

L. Vinson Freeman, Jr., in his Army records it is Leslie V. Freeman, was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in June 1923. He...

After recovering from his wounds, John Caponigro found out that his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion...

Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....

Nicholas J. Zuras thinks it important that students today know something about what happened during World War 2....

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