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Most Americans today do not know much or care very much about World War 2. The education system does not teach children...

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

Larris Duhon was assigned to the 300th Engineer Combat Battalion and was sent overseas to Europe from Camp Shanks [...

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

When the war started, there was mass hysteria against anything Japanese. Terry Shima and others were treated like...

Word from intelligence was that Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] would make a stand in Bavaria [...

In 1948 Lou Brissie went to spring training, after which he returned to Philadelphia to play the Phillies. After the...

James "Jim" Geisler reached England [Annotator's Note: in November 1944] and then spent time in France, Belgium and...

When they landed in England, Charles Scheffel had been shuffled around as an officer in the regiment. He was all over...

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

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip Irwin Medway looks at photographs, mostly off-camera, and talks about the men...

David Olson and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 87th Armored Field Artillery Battalion] went through Camp Shanks en...

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