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Everything was rationed during the war. George Grugett's dad told him to go to the ration board and get gas stamps. He...

Cecil K. Bell was sent to Fort Sill [Annotator's Note: in Lawton, Oklahoma] for his basic training and then to Camp...

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

Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] recovered from a case of...

Charles R. Smith [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry...

Kenneth Beckman was sent back to the United States in October 1945. He describes his life as moving from one base to...

His most memorable experience of the war was when Otis Gatewood was shot and captured. There was a time when he wasn't...

Richard Candelaria waited until dark then took off. He was armed with a .45 pistol that he tied around his neck to keep...

In 1939, the Germans came into Poland and divided it into two parts. One was annexed by Germany and the other was...

Robert Murphy located Gordon Prein and convinced him to come to the Las Vegas 505 reunion [Annotators Note: reunion of...

Norman William Waldman was born in December 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a machine gunner in the...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...

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