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Norman Johnson was born on Staten Island, New York on 16 January 1925. His father was an electrician. In the afternoons...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior was drafted in 1942 and went to Camp Claiborne [Annotator’s Note: in Rapides Parish, Louisiana...

Joseph Lesniewski got on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. There were only 19...

Tom Quigley remembers how every Friday the officers would go to Baton Rouge for the weekend. Quigley struggled finding...

Harper Harvey Coleman got a swollen arm from a tree burst and was sent back to England [Annotator's Note: 17 November...

Vernon Leopold ended the war at Berchtesgaden in US Army Air Forces intelligence. He felt it was his personal victory...

Bernard Friedenberg passed through Camp Lucky Strike on his way home after the war. He remembers passing the Statue of...

Leonard Jindra crossed the English Channel en route to the amphibious invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...

Russell Hoff has vivid memories of his prisoner of war experiences. He has flashbacks that will probably never leave...

Philip Schmidt used the G.I. Bill to get an education. He went to Saint Paul, Minnesota and found tons of G.I.s looking...

Robert Harvey Heinly [Annotator's Note: with the 3463rd Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company] got orders to turn all his...

For John Marr it is paramount to relentlessly train military leadership based on the lessons learned from failed...

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