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Sol Lazinger did not have a girlfriend while he was in the service. He did enjoy one nurse while he was in a hospital...

There was a lot of "oohs and ahhs" at the mission briefing [Annotator's Note: for Victor Fienup's 17 August 1943...

Carl Platkin was born in September 1924 in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. His father worked...

Martin Baranek stopped in Modena, Italy, where he slept on the floor in a former military academy building operated by...

There was excitement at Constance Cresswell's officers' club when Glenn Miller [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces...

The war changed John Scott Campbell's life. He probably would have been a schoolteacher. He loves history. The war made...

Frank Maresca saw his first combat at Bristol. Shortly after they were issued their ammunition and k rations they were...

John Arch McGill traveled in a boxcar across the top of North Africa to Bizerte [Annotator's Note: Bizerte, Tunisia]....

Barbara Pathe was disappointed that she missed the Normandy Invasion. She was sent by train to Brooklyn, New York where...

Jack Davis' first combat was "scary as hell". He would be walking along the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: man-made...

Robert Eshback believes that the war was a good experience for a lot of men; for him, it wasn't good. It took a lot of...

Charles Taylor was a secret serviceman after World War 2. He married in 1954 to his first wife and remarried after her...

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