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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was known as "Chub" through high school. He was born in Abilene, Kansas, in March 1926. His...

Paul Fair thinks it is important to teach people about World War Two. Millions of people were killed in the war. It is...

Oran Harris remembers that he served with people from all over United States. The Soutern boys didn't like the way the...

Virginia Wilterdink was born near the Canadian border in Woodland, Maine in October 1922. She was one of five children...

When John Kelley and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery D, 457th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, 11th Airborne...

In early April [Annotator's Note: April 1943], second lieutenants were asked to volunteer for duty in the Pacific....

Tenney didn't feel that three rations of rice a day, at about four and a half ounces a ration, was good. He felt it was...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

Leo V. Strausbaugh was a captain in charge of B Company of the 6th Ranger Battalion [Annotator's Note: Company B, 6th...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Benjamin Albert Glusing was born in February 1916. He was born in southeastern Kansas on a farm near the town of...

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