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Smith, Rothacker First Prison Camp
En route to their first German prison camp, Rothacker Smith and his fellow prisoners never discussed the possibility of...
Hairston, Joseph Segment 13
Recently Hairston went to artillery OCS [Annotator’s Note: Officer Candidate School] to learn how today's generations...
Baker, Vernon Segment 4
The interviewer notes that in the last segment Vernon Baker made a comment about an event that was his initiation into...
Chaisson, Roland Joining the Army, Learning of Pearl Harbor and the Sicilian Campaign
Roland Chaisson volunteered for the Army when he was 17. He didn't like the Navy and the Marine Corps sounded too tough...
Smith, Clifford Rambervillers to Munich
Clifford Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division] were on...
Leonard, Edward POW Experience
Edward J. Leonard was in a German half-track [Annotator's Note: M3 half-track; a vehicle with front wheels and rear...
Peterson, Carl Red Wine and Helping Others
When Carl Peterson was in the service the guys he served with would get together and have fun. In Sicily they had a...
Ngai, Johnny Sicily and Italy
When Johnny Ngai was fighting in Sicily [Annotator's Note: Sicily, Italy], there were so many soldiers coming over, he...
Ginrich, Ralph Prisoner of War--POW
Ralph “Bud” Ginrich made a few friends in the prison camps [Annotator’s Note: he had been captured at Sidi Bou Zid,...
Yatsu, Lawrence Postwar Life
Lawrence Yatsu got a medical discharge. He had been in the hospital for over six months when he got his CDD, or...
Raner, Norman Prewar Life to Enlistment
Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 4
Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...

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