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Leon Bass voluntarily entered the military. He was in a movie theater when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Robert Boyer was born in June 1925 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, the older of the two children in his family. He grew up...

Norris Waddill was born in Coryell County in Ireland, Texas in 1922 and grew up on his grandfather's ranch. He had a...

Vernon Brantley was at Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort Polk, Vernon Parish, Louisiana] for maneuvers...

Baum remembers some of the men in his division. He talks about his feelings towards Creighton Abrams. Abrams was the...

Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] left on D-Day [Annotator's Note...

Elmo E. Bell retired from the US Army as a full colonel. His Mississippi National Guard retired grade is brigadier...

After recovering from his wounds, John Caponigro found out that his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion...

Seymour Mermelstein and the 1st Special Service Force [Annotator's Note: Mermelstein was a member of 3rd Company, 1st...

They [Annotator's Note: the Germans] had a tank near there but it had been disabled and bombed by the Air Force.They...

Backing up to the time when Rose Bayuk first arrived in London [Annotator's Note: London, England], she relates how the...

Mason Dorsey's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the day he got knocked out by a German Panzerfaust [...

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