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Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...

Clifford Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division] were on...

The Preparations for Overseas Movement [Annotator's Note: POM] he doesn't remember a lot of. He remembered having to...

William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...

Timothy Mahoney wanted to join the Navy because a friend of his was in the Navy. His father told him to wait until he...

Rudy Cravens remembers the ship he deployed on had to zig-zag [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] and...

Norman Raner went home for 30 days and then was transferred down to Hot Springs, Arkansas for R...

William McCowen should never have gotten in the military in the first place. He had trick knees. He played a lot of...

Charles Coolidge recalls the weather at Monte Cassino as being cold and rainy. Coolidge feels that had they gone with...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] While Taylor Howard was in the Army, the...

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

Lee O. McKinnon stayed in the Navy until 1947. The Navy made good progress. When he first enlisted, there was no Navy...

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