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F.M. Richard Simons and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...

After being wounded by a mortar round Rothacker Smith, his sergeant and another soldier wounded during the German...

The interviewer notes that in the last segment Vernon Baker made a comment about an event that was his initiation into...

Roland Chaisson volunteered for the Army when he was 17. He didn't like the Navy and the Marine Corps sounded too tough...

In November 1944, during a battle in Italy, Walter Henry Barton was wounded by shell fire while manning a cannon. [...

When Carl Peterson was in the service the guys he served with would get together and have fun. In Sicily they had a...

Ralph “Bud” Ginrich made a few friends in the prison camps [Annotator’s Note: he had been captured at Sidi Bou Zid,...

Arnold Horn remembers that they had to help build barracks while they slept in tents. They trained with wooden guns....

Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...

Lawrence Yatsu was in the eleventh grade when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. It was one of the worst incidents in...

Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...

Mary T. Heany was being romantic with an officer. It was against the rules for officers and enlisted people to...

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