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

William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

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

Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...

Bryan Compton and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 120th Medical Battalion, 45th Infantry Division] attacked the...

Johnny Ngai did not do any special training for the landing in Southern France. They were physically fit. He only had...

Sicily [Annotator's Note: Operation Husky, 9 July to 17 August 1943, Sicily, Italy] was the most difficult invasion...

John Shirley was an infantry replacement sergeant. He was stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland. After a three-day leave [...

Earl Ervin Clark says that the 10th Mountain Division [Annotator's Note: Clark was a regimental staff officer in the...

Theodore Finkbeiner went on a patrol to snatch a prisoner one night and came to a bridge that had been blown out. They...

Raymond Cauble lost his crew after he was wounded and was in recovery. His crew was shot down later. Cauble was wounded...

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