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Walter Trauner went through a line and was told he would be in the Army. He wanted to fly. Basic training was on tank...

William Dabney notes that the explosive did not have to be activated before being hauled up with the balloon. They...

[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] Monroe "Tex" Combs Monroe received orders to jump...

Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...

[Annotator's Note: Donald Beeghly served in the Army as a pointer on a 90mm antiaircraft gun in the 142nd and 143rd...

Norman Riggsby remained in the hospital for several months while his wounds healed [Annotator’s Note: he had first been...

Gowan Duffy remembers they started to run out of supplies. Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George...

Howard T. Maki was born in May 1925 and grew up in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. His parents were from Finland. Maki...

Edmund Frodyma was in England with his unit, [Annotator’s Note: 67th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 3rd Armored...

Clinton Riddle and his comrades in Company B were wrestled from their sleep in the early predawn hours for breakfast on...

Charles White went through Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944]....

Antoinette Underwood and the hospital staff [Annotator's Note: of the 129th General Hospital] knew an invasion was...

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