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Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...

Eugene Yackel was born in March 1925 in Sanborn, Minnesota. He was raised on a farm. He spent the first ten or 12 years...

Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

Tom Quigley grew up playing polo and riding horses and initially volunteered to serve with the cavalry in the army....

Joseph Brannan reached Tulagi on the USS Niagara (AGP-1) [Annotator's Note: the USS Niagara (PG-52) was redesignated...

Jerome Harold Black went to Allied Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Allied Force Headquarters, or AFHQ, in Caserta,...

Robert W. "Bob" O'Connor [Annotator's Note: a Communications Sergeant in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute...

Harley Bridger was a radio operator. He learned to use a lead ball to help with his radio transmitter. The B-24 [...

John L. Cowan does not remember much about his time in the military. It was not very exciting. Cowan decided to serve...

[Annotator's Note: There is a break in the video then the video starts while Alfred Pierse Murphy is mid-sentence.] He...

Sabol was born in 1924 and knew when the war broke out that he would have to serve in one branch or another. He chose...

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear a dog panting in the background throughout segment.] William Batty was assigned to the 58th...

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