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[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] By October 1943, Edwin B....

Harold Shook was born in April 1920 in Portland, Oregon, one of two children born to his mother, who died when he was...

When John J. Cupina's unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division...

You could not ask for a better enemy than the Germans. The Germans were very efficient, and Joseph Monteyne [Annotator'...

Lorcey J. Sonnier began drinking too much after the war. He went back to farming when he returned home. He got married...

The fighting in Africa was ongoing [Annotator's Note: in March 1943] when Darrell D. Gust was preparing for combat. He...

Gerald Claassen was born in Buffalo Center, Iowa in December 1920. His father died at the age of 26 when Claassen was...

Anthony Acevedo shipped out of the United States around 6 December [Annotator's Note: 6 December 1944]. The trip to...

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

Robert W. Paschal and his crew [Annotator’s Note: serving in the 613th Bombardment Squadron, 401st Bombardment Group]...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was in aviation cadet training when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Lewis Guidry was born in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana in January 1919. The Great Depression affected his life in many ways...

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