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In 1943, John J. Connelly graduated high school and went to sign up for the Air Corps with a friend of his. He flunked...

After completing his training, Mort Walker volunteered for overseas duty because he had heard that once the war was...

Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] was inducted into the service at Camp Grant, Illinois then sent to Camp...

William Scully [Annotator’s Note: serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry...

Vernon Ollar’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

Leon Hirsch reported to an inhospitable major general in Wiesbaden, Germany on orders to assist in developing road...

When Jack Raskoph reported to the destroyer minesweeper, he was told the communication officer wanted to see him. He...

Normandy was bocage country [Annotator's Note: a terrain of mixed woodland and pastures] and was divided by stone...

Leon Waldman’s unit [Annotator’s Note: 840th Bombardment Squadron, 483rd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] they got...

William V. Cross was born in September 1922 in Memphis, Tennessee. He grew up with one brother and a family that moved...

John Stanley Lee Swarts returned to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Europe] and was sent to Treasure Island,...

Reginald Duncan was wounded twice during his time in Europe but refused to receive the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note:...

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