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On 27 October 1942, Howard Chandler was on his way to work when he observed more soldiers in town than usual. [...

Darold Rice and his last member of his machine gun crew set the gun up in a ditch by the crossroad and hunkered down...

Abe Milkis took a train home from New York. [Annotator’s Note: he arrived in New York after he returned from Europe...

Irwin Medway was drafted on 18 January 1943 and was to report to basic training. After basic, he was sent to Camp Tyson...

John Keema’s preflight training was essentially basic training and consisted of a lot of classroom work, marching, PT [...

When Richard Willett was at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], he would go to...

Robert Stephen Bebko used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Jerome Harold Black does not think there will ever be another war with trenches and where tanks will be used. It is all...

Leslie Aigner finished his apprenticeship and began working as a machinist after the war. He lived under a communist...

Alois Kopp enlisted in the Navy in September 1937 despite the fact he could not swim. He learned fast. He volunteered...

Joseph P. Fulco did not think the fighting was as bad after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River]. He...

Mason Dorsey's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the day he got knocked out by a German Panzerfaust [...

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