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Vernon Baker retired in Idaho. One day he got a call from Professor Gibran at Shaw University. He asked what Baker knew...

There were a lot of cases where there were no NCOs [Annotator's Note: non-commissioned officers]. Roland Chaisson says...

Paul Maymon was training in Perham Downs, England [Annotator’s Note: with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment] before...

Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Radford served in the Army as an infantryman in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 133rd Infantry...

Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

Fred Topel decided to go into the National Guard with a few other friends. He was only 16 years old, so he had to lie...

There was a barber in Ivan Van der Pool's company [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment,...

The Germans were formidable because of their early conquests like the blitzkrieg [Annotator's Note: method of warfare...

Edward LaPorta does not recall the date he was captured at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. He believes that the reason...

Rothacker Smith began selling root beer to construction workers at projects around Detroit during the Great Depression...

Walter Barnes did not see much of a change in New Orleans when he returned after the war. Before the war he and his...

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