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Robert Boeke went to infantry training school which was 16 weeks of training at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

When the war ended, Edward G. Willette had 60 of the 85 points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based on a...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

Ernest L. Poulson recalled driving around with a friend and a couple of girls when he heard the news on the radio that...

William Morris Paulk was born in Vernon, Texas in 1924. He grew up there with two brothers and one twin sister. In the...

For the remainder of the war Michael Cokinos was a company commander in the 83rd Infantry Division. He served as a...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs was born in October 1921 in...

On reflection, Robert Sweatt said it seemed like his life was "a mess." He never went to the B-29 [Annotator's Note:...

A 109 Focke-Wulf [Annotator's Note: either a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190...

Jack Appel was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York...

Adolph Edward Asher went to Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany]. Every...

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