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After basic training, Donald Rudolph Carlson was shipped to Fort Bliss, Texas for training in an anti-aircraft battery...

As they got closer to Hammelburg, they were attacked by German Hetzers [Annotator's Note: German light tank destroyer...

Richard J. Field was born and raised in Upstate New York in the small town of Liberty. He lived on the outskirts of...

Bell's initial experience in England consisted mainly of training and trying to avoid boredom. They were gradually...

John Edward Pierce [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 149th Engineer Combat Battalion] was given orders to settle 50...

Raymond Mason remembers that his commanding officer had to make sure people knew that he was the boss. He understood...

Basic training was normal for Henry Little. His training for building bridges involved alligators and snakes swimming...

Fred Hirsekorn was born in Schonlanke, Germany in May 1924. There were about five generations of Hirsekorns who were...

Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served in Europe with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group]...

Leon Bass went from England to France. They [Annotator's Note: the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion (Colored)] got...

Roy Joseph Moss took a long train ride to Little Rock, Arkansas [Annotator's Note: Camp Robinson] where he received his...

Tom Quigley recalls how after having sufficiently halted the German advance, he and his men slogged their way back to...

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