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Herbert Weatherwax was drafted into the military when he was 24 years old. He had a problem with alcohol while he was...

James Sandoz was born in New Iberia, Louisiana in January 1924. His father was a farmer. They did not have electricity...

Robert Wolf trained in Louisiana in the summer of 1944. He then went to California to do amphibious training for the...

Morris Eugene Day ended up in the Ruhr Pocket [Annotator's Note: a massive Allied encirclement of German forces in the...

Emory Maurice Ornelles [Annotator's Note: in the 90th Infantry Division] was working with tanks when a driver asked him...

Lucien Laborde was on staff duty in the war room on the night of 7 May 1945. At about two in the morning they got a TWX...

Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortarman in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] retreated about eight or ten miles...

Frank Mancuso served in an antitank company in the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He had a platoon of...

Sol Lazinger saw his first dead American on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France] in the water...

Richard Edward Gile fought in the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...

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