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Alex Carter Sr. was born in December 1920 in Mississippi. He had three brothers and six sisters. He was the oldest...

Joseph Hartmann remembers that by 6:30 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

For Robert Fitz, it was an honor to serve three years in combat areas, and is grateful that he lived through it. He...

Anthony Bianconi feels strongly that World War 2 should be taught to youngsters today. There are guys under white...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] What...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Robert Martin went to upholstery school with the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment...

Edward Dunne went to England and then made Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France aboard the USS LST-53] as one...

Charles Walker was in the Mediterranean Sea and the Soviets [Annotator's Note: Soviet Navy] had a fleet of its own...

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

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

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