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Baum recalls that Jewish men did not receive the recognition that the other soldiers did. It was not as bad for the...

When Wallace Yip, Sr. came into New York Harbor [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] there were fireworks. He went to...

Richard Duchossois knew his unit was going to be a tank destroyer unit. None of the men in the battalion had ever even...

Josephine Pescatore landed on Omaha Beach. Upon landing, she noticed all the dead bodies. Some of them were in body...

At Fort Benning, Georgia, Thomas J. Blakey went through communications school after he qualified [Annotator's Note: as...

Harley Reynolds learned immediately on the Queen Mary that they were headed for England because the crew passed along...

Around the end of 1942, John T. Fallon went to Engineer OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school]. He graduated...

Jack A. Smithson was born in Malvern, Arkansas in 1923. As a kid, he worked in the sawmill there. At about 15, Smithson...

Sol Lazinger received many awards for his military service. While on a patrol, he was crawling in a beet field near the...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

Andrew George Jameson and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry...

When asked his opinion of the Germans, Otis Gatewood said it seemed to him that the kids of the war generation were...

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