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Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...

Henry Lederer says that over 600,000 people were killed in the Civil War. [Annotator's Note: American Civil War, 1861...

Josephine Pescatore believes that it is important for future generations to know about World War 2. A lot of people do...

John T. "Jack" Race had to go through training to become an officer and to take a flight test to qualify him for a...

Alfred Dietrick had no problem becoming a civilian whatsoever. He was just thankful that he came back. He had one dream...

Jack Madden was transported on the old 40 and 8 train cars to his destination [Annotator's Note: following PT boat...

Word from intelligence was that Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] would make a stand in Bavaria [...

Lewis A. Strandburg [Annotator's Note: serving with the Company I, 3rd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

Donald Beeghly was not excited about being drafted. He wondered what would happen. Beeghly got his uniforms at Fort...

Peter Hirschmann [Annotator's Note: a member of Company F, 2nd battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry...

Norman Alden Briggs was born in November 1925 in Jennings [Annotator's Note: Jennings, Louisiana]. He had three...

There was no way to avoid the war. Japan attacked a US territory [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

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