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Vernon Alexander went through the Vosges Mountains experiencing the snow and cold. He was freezing to death. Alexander...

After enlisting in the Army Air Corps, Ralph Boyer went to Tennessee for four weeks of basic training. There, the Army...

George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] remembers...

Sidney "Sid" Birns was born in Manhattan[Annotator's Note: Manhattan is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York...

Even though many of the German pilots were under-qualified the 109 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109...

In describing what it was like to go into combat for the first time, Robert Boyer said he saw a comrade "go to pieces"...

After the war, Floyd Horne got into investigations. This was in 1946. He got out of the service as a First Lieutenant....

They were told that they had to march about 60 miles [Annotators Note: as American prisoners of war in Poland]. Corbin...

Leila Morrison attended a nursing program in Chattanooga, Tennessee [Annotator's Note: at Baroness Erlanger Hospital,...

Donald Dean Paynter attended basic training in Houston, Texas. He just remembers it being physical and he got a lot of...

Frank Mancuso next went to Bessence [Annotators Note: unsure of spelling], France where his commanding officer gave him...

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

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