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In October [Annotator’s Note: of 1942], Harley Harned turned 18. Not long after, his friends made the decision to sign...

Dan Baker crossed the Rhine River at Worms over a pontoon bridge. They waited on the German side for two weeks before...

Joseph J. Drake's service in the war was worth it. Germany and Japan probably could have controlled the world had they...

Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...

One night, the battalion command sent John Witmeyer on a patrol behind German lines. Witmeyer took six other men out on...

Robert S. Rugeley had some exposure to Germans. After the war was over, his company [Annotator's Note: 285th Signal...

When the war ended, Rose Bayuk says she had done her job, and was ready "to get out of there." While it lasted, it was...

After enlisting in the Army Air Corps, Ralph Boyer went to Tennessee for four weeks of basic training. There, the Army...

The performance of the 100th Infantry Battalion [Annotator's Note: an all Japanese-American unit from Hawaii] helped in...

Terrell Lavern Pigott had his basic training at Camp Blanding, Florida [Annotator's Note: in Clay County, Florida]....

Ardell Bollinger arrived in Europe in July 1943. He was shot down 23 September 1944. Bollinger’s first mission was a “...

Bradford Clark Freeman was born in Lowndes County [Annotator's Note: Lowndes County, Mississippi], and attended school...

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