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John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

Vernon Brantley got a call that a German tank had been bypassed. He took a crew of four and some anti-tank mines and...

Wayne Peer anticipated being drafted. The armed forces had few restrictions to defer service. Peer was inducted at Fort...

Robert Guitard was drafted after graduating from high school [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He went to Fort Williams [...

James Jordan was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in February 1927. He went to a military academy at 15. He had no...

Ehlers served in Company L and Company C of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He enlisted in October...

When Robert Spint first went in the TDs [Annotator's Note: tank destroyers; Spint was a member of the 651st Tank...

A.C. Thomas went through Luxembourg and he saw the cemetery for the World War One soldiers [Annotator's Note: World War...

James Crane experienced a great change in the Merchant Marine. He was concerned about making the first convoy, but he...

Frank Dolsen, volunteered for the Army Air Corps, and trained in Boise, Idaho with his crew [Annotator's Note: 349th...

Walter Trauner remembers the people were nice. They were taken over by the Nazis. He had cousins who were in the German...

Byron Othello Wilkins was given an automatic rifle after they cleared the foxholes on the hill. All the men had M1...

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