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Anthony Bianconi was born in September 1920 in Youngstown, Ohio. When he was quite young, his family moved to Mount...

Herbert Fontenot went to Camp Wallace, Texas for Navy boot camp. He had no problem with the weather but wearing boots...

William Cassady went to Chicago [Annotator’s Note: Chicago, Illinois] by train. Then he went on to Great Lakes [...

Gerald Rupert was discharged from Bainbridge [Annotator's Note: he was discharged in fall 1946 at Bainbridge Naval...

Robert Martin was transferred to the USS LST-515. It was a smaller ship than the USS Donner (LSD-20). He did not like...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow was born in 1925 [Annotator’s Note: he grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. His father worked on...

Leon Schafer has been to Europe a number of times since 68 [Annotator's Note: 1968] when all of his family went. His...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was building huts...

Harold Beal thought the English were nice people. They would travel up and down the coast to practice making landings....

Floyd Stahl was born in October 1924 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He grew up on a farm near Alto, Michigan. He was the...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

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