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Martin J. Anschau was seasick 12 of 13 days returning home on the ship. He could not eat anything. Food smelled bad. He...

The Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest, 19 September 1944 to 10 February 1945, Hürtgen (Hurtgen...

Harley Reynolds notes that by one in the morning they stopped and rested. The next morning they were in position and...

James Albert Kitts feels his time in the military was necessary and does not regret it. He regrets getting hurt. He was...

[Annotator's Note: Coughing can be heard throughout this segment.] Allen Porter was born in Market, Michigan in 1925....

Jimmy Doi and his family were informed in March [Annotator's Note: March 1942] that they were being sent to an...

The French Foreign Legion decided to fight with the Allies. Charles Scheffel stayed in the tunnel in Algiers that night...

Joseph Romano had mixed feelings about going home. He got disappointed when he went to Camp Kilmer [Annotator's Note:...

Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...

William Dabney did not have to take a test to be in the barrage balloon battalion. The instruction was cut and dry and...

Shirley Guidry was born in Rayne, Louisiana in August 1925. When he was 15 years old, he moved to New Orleans [...

For Francis Hurd, the most difficult part of the war was crossing the beachhead onto French soil because they didn't...

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