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In June 1943, two weeks before his 18th birthday, William M. Barnett was given permission to leave prep school [...

Frank Aleksandrowicz remembers that Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] was a great place. Americans were...

Robert Gaylord Furrow felt like his service made him a better man. He thinks every young man should be given military...

Asked if he had any problems with post traumatic stress disorder, he said he had some problems with loud, sudden noises...

Maurice Zolkower was told he would receive a helmet with a Red Cross on it and be transferred to the 92nd Mechanized...

After Sicily, Floyd Dumas went to Salerno. The fighting there was not much different than it had been in Sicily except...

Donald C. Morrison believes its important to study World War 2. He thinks it is vital to have institutions like The...

Irwin Medway was sent to Colorado Springs to Camp Carson [Annotator's Note: now Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado...

James F. Dorris, Jr. did not enjoy his first taste of combat. Some men were killed. They got reinforcements. They could...

Normandy was bocage country [Annotator's Note: a terrain of mixed woodland and pastures] and was divided by stone...

Colin Joseph Mayne was born in March 1925 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana], where he also grew...

John Raaen and the 5th Ranger Battalion was participating in the Saar Campaign when the Battle of the Bulge broke out...

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