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Philip Schmidt received his orders to go overseas in November 1944. In the year and a half he was at Fort Polk [...

Guy Leefe, Jr. deployed to Italy in December 1944 with nine other pilots from his flight class but as soon as the...

Charles R. Smith went through Bastogne in Belgium [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 417th...

Robert G. Frey crossed the Rhine River in March [Annotator's Note: March 1945]. The Air Force had taken out most of the...

Although Clyde Kenney liked the experience of being in the military, he didn't like being shot at. War "got to be a...

Frank Hartzell and his battalion [Annotator's Note: Hartzell was a member of Company B, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion...

Earl Colson landed in Le Havre, France [Annotator's Note: with the 86th Infantry Division]. They trained there as they...

Vernon Tweedt was crossing southern Germany. The mountain streams were almost clogged with rainbow trout because Hitler...

The advance was uphill in a wooded area when Francis Resta's platoon [Annotator's Note: Resta served in the weapons...

Gordon Higgins traveled by train to Camp Shanks, New York, where troops were collecting before shipping out. He was...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] had to occupy a forest...

William Epperson found the SS troops he faced at Wingen to be younger than the Germans they had fought prior to that...

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