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James Jordan was lucky. He married a wonderful girl from Scranton [Annotator's Note: Scranton, Pennsylvania]. She...

Wayne Pierce grew up in the small farming community of Polo, Illinois. He was drafted in June 1941 six months before...

James "Jim" Geisler remembers his three days in Paris, France as his most memorable event of the war. He remembers...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Albert Kitts what he thinks Americans think of World War 2 today.] He has...

Harry Bell was born in May 1925 and grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated high school in May 1943 and by...

[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches and the video and sound are sometimes not synchronized throughout the segment.]...

Lucien Laborde had no personal contact with General Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S....

When they were finished building their positions [Annotator's Note: along the beaches of Oahu] Clarence Herbert...

Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went ashore at Omaha [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, 7 June 1944 with the...

Philip Schmidt received his orders to go overseas in November 1944. In the year and a half he was at Fort Polk [...

Marvin H. Gohlke went to basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia. The ASTP [Annotator's Note: generally referred to...

Robert Guitard and his family listened to the news of the war over the radio. One of his brothers was in the 5th Army...

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