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Kenneth F. Thomas reported to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia for induction [Annotator's Note: he had been drafted into the...

Carl Robert Gatlin enlisted in the Army and after training, he was sent to Blackstone, Virginia to be shipped overseas...

Alan Moskin thought we [Annotator's Note: the United States] had gotten rid of all of it [Annotator's Note: the hatred...

When you woke up in the morning, you had to make up your bed and it had to be basically a foot or 2 off the floor. The...

Harley Reynolds notes that when the sun went down that night fighters would sweep over German positions dropping flares...

For Robert Murphy, returning to Sainte Mere Eglise and making the annual jumps was for his comrades. The guys he served...

After he ate breakfast Rogers went up to the radio system that was set up on the apron at the airport. They moved the...

When Richard Duchossois and his unit got up into the Bulge [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Bulge] it was very cold...

Sam Pedrick entered the Army in 1942. Initially, he was assigned to the 323rd Engineer Combat Battalion. After a year,...

Opal Grapes saw the first patients arriving by midmorning or noon [Annotator’s Note: on D-Day, 6 June 1944]. The...

John Poole was in Innsbruck for a couple of weeks [Annotator's Note: following the German surrender on 8 May 1945]. It...

Describing an average day, William J. Pribyl explains that he was quartered in tents at a campsite in Tinsukia [...

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