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Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

Theodore Finkbeiner and the paratroopers he was with started heading toward Gela. Whenever they heard shooting they...

Burt Richard Sadler was born in the suburbs of London in Hounslow, Middlesex [Annotator's Note: England]. His...

Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...

When Eugene Yackel first heard they had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

Andrew George Jameson's first assignment in Holland was a failure. They [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion,...

Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Isham Davis [Annotator’s Note: serving...

Melvin Linkous was very sympathetic toward the German female population. The women of Leipzig [Annotator's Note:...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

Warren Sanford Moose was at the University of Oregon [Annotator's Note: in Eugene, Oregon] when Pearl Harbor was...

John Singlaub enlisted in the US Army Artillery because he wanted the experience to supplement his infantry skills....

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