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James Britt retired in 1961. He was in the Army for 20 years. He had a daughter and a son. He tested equipment in...

John Gibbons met his future wife in Kansas before deploying overseas. Gibbons acted as the copilot for the flight...

Russell Van Matre enlisted in the US Army in December 1942. For the year between then and Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Robert Bueker was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He finished high school in 1942. [Annotator's Note: The...

After the D-Day invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], William "...

William Kracov [Annotator's Note: as a scout for heavy weapons Company M, 3rd Battalion, 232nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd...

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

Wallace Jeffery and the 300 or so troops in his unit got together after Paris. [Annotator’s Note: the unit was the...

When the war started, there was mass hysteria against anything Japanese. Terry Shima and others were treated like...

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

The D Day assembly plans for paratroopers like John Marr were completely forgotten in the chaos of the jump. The...

Richard Ford believes that is important for people to know what happened during the war. A lot of people complain about...

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