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Kassal remembers making it to Palermo, Italy after three to four weeks with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was in...

Norman Raner got off the ship in Oran [Annotator's Note: Oran, Algeria]. He went to an old school and billeted [...

Shiyuza Hayashi is Japanese-American. He was born in America and did not know what Japan was like. His parents had...

Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...

Gowan Duffy remembers all the soldiers at Omaha Beach were seasoned German soldiers. They set up on the Allied side of...

Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...

Chester L. Talley was not too anxious to go overseas and serve in World War 2, but since he had no choice, he tried to...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard and spent fourteen months in the Mediterranean on the SS Houston...

Charles Kitowski was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1923. He grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...

William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Raymond Cauble if he recalls where he was when he heard the news of the...

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