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Melvin Dahlberg finds it hard to point to one experience from the war that is the most memorable. The blast that...

Thomas Payn was born in June 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of his Canadian parents. The family moved to...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went ashore at Omaha [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, 7 June 1944 with the...

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

Anthony Bianconi [Annotator's Note:a musician and ammunition loader on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41)] went from North...

Joseph Richard Bernardi, Senior went on a mission to Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany with the 509th...

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

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

William Leo Spaetgens enlisted in the United States Navy [Annotator's Note: on 22 October 1942]. His parents did not...

Frank Fontana and the 500 men in his outfit reached Paris one week after it was liberated. They went to Le Bourget...

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

Standifer had been eating well and sleeping well in the hospital. He was put into a boxcar and shipped to the front. He...

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