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George W. McCarthy was born in April 1925 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He father worked as a lumberman, but lost his...

They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...

Marvin Raymond Edwards' most memorable experience of the war was the horrible treatment by the Germans and their cold-...

In October [Annotator’s Note: of 1942], Harley Harned turned 18. Not long after, his friends made the decision to sign...

The next morning Frank Mancuso is awoken by a lieutenant. He quickly learned that his unit had moved out of the city....

Kenneth R. Williams was classified as an aviation cadet and reported to San Antonio, Texas in March [Annotator’s Note:...

[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp's most memorable experience...

The Red Ball Express hauled the troops around and it was almost completely made of black drivers. When they got ready...

John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...

When William Larson got out of the Army [Annotator's Note: 1946], he did not intend on going back to Nebraska. His wife...

That night they ran out of trees [Annotators Note: after escaping a German prisoner of war camp and looking for...

Six weeks after he was reassigned to the 198th Signal Photographic Company, Alfred "Al" Danegger was in Europe. He...

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