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Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...

When they finally stopped they were a couple feet away from a hut. The next morning there were people working on the...

Before Elmo Espree got on the ship for deployment overseas, his group of black soldiers was lined up first on the...

Assigned to the 1st Battalion[Annotator's Note: the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) was known as Merrill's...

Returning to the United States on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], Richard...

[Annotator's Note: Newton Dana was born in 1924 in Trenton, New Jersey.] Newton Dana grew up with a large extended...

The next day after a good sleep, the Herbert Gross and his shipmate left the village at dawn [Annotator's Note: after...

Carl Constein was born in August 1920 in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. He grew up with an older brother and an older sister...

William Disanza had trains and tanks on the deck of his ship. The train cars were too big to fit underneath the deck....

[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] Gilbert H. Howland and his outfit [Annotator's...

John Alison’s duties also resulted in him being a glider pilot despite never having flown one before. He flew a glider...

Alvin Callender was based at Shrewsbury, England, and he recalled one afternoon when the sky filled with Spitfires [...

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