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George Colburn had never been away from home until arriving at Parris Island [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit...

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

Alfred Rodrigues reported aboard the Washington [Annotator's Note: USS Washington (BB-56)] as a five inch [Annotator's...

After his induction in Little Rock [Annotator's Note: Little Rock, Arkansas], Carl Trim was sent to Farragut, Idaho for...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Leo William Schmittgens remembered after all the firing ceased [Annotator's Note: after a firefight during the Battle...

Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Romus Valtin Burgin worked with a contact officer from the VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] named Frank...

William Earl Gast remarks that during his time in Europe, he lived day by day. He did not think about whether he would...

Asked if he had plans or goals for his postwar life, Arthur Lee said he had no idea what he would do when he returned...

Myers Bernard Rosenbloom left Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] and went 7,000 miles across the ocean back...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

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