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William Pena remembers how after suffering heavy casualties his battalion was diminished to the size of practically one...

After Richard Edward Gile was discharged from the Army, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I....

Norris Waddill crossed the Rhine River about a month after Christmas [Annotator's Note: in early 1945]. Engineers were...

Steve Sivak was born in February 1922 in Morgantown, West Virginia. He had one older sister. His parents raised him in...

For Holly Reynolds, the experience of being overseas was so unusual that she appreciated it as a whole. She is also...

To John Gibbons none of the missions he flew were as bad as the 19 March mission [Annotators Note: the 19 March 1944...

John L. Cowan was asked to teach incoming recruits how to handle a Garand rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-...

Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 379th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division as a...

Clyde East and his wingman engaged four enemy fighters as they flew along a railroad they were assigned to observe. His...

Robert Payne graduated OCS [Annotator's Note: Officer Candidate School] as a Second Lieutenant and his father gave him...

Robert Zawada was assigned to the 20th Armored Division. They left from Fort Campbell, Kentucky and traveled by train...

Vernon Ollar’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

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