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Vernon Schmidt was born in Reedley [Annotator's Note: Reedley, California] in January 1926. His father worked on a farm...

Kalil did not think he was going to survive after seeing all the Germans in the town. All he remembers from getting hit...

Harold Roed was shipped overseas to England on the Mauretania [Annotator's Note: RMS Mauretania], an ocean liner...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a beeping sound throughout the segment.] Joel Arnold met up with his service friends in New...

Tom Quigley remembers how every Friday the officers would go to Baton Rouge for the weekend. Quigley struggled finding...

In May 1943, Burt Richard Sadler would turn 18 years old. He did not want to join the Army because he saw so many drunk...

Lorenzo Dow Crews and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 397th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry...

In preparation for the invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Rankin's squadron [Annotator's Note: 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group] had an apartment in London that the men...

Walter Rozett was born in the Bronx, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five boroughs in New York, New...

Frank Curtis McBride enlisted in the Air Force because he wanted to fly. With an abundance of applicants for flight...

Leonard Jindra never saw any troops he served with intentionally commit crimes. It was the rear echelon troops who...

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