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

Walter Douglas wore the same necktie for every mission he went on. He also remarked that it was freezing temperatures...

When Charles Coolidge landed in Southern France there was little opposition after the major shelling the Germans took...

Carl Payne came home to the naval base in Virginia. He was discharged in Indiantown Gap [Annotator’s Note: Indiantown...

[Annotator's Note: William Albright was a prisoner of war in Stalag XVII-B in Krems an Der Donau, Austria.] They...

Joseph Taliancich would have firing practice over a lake at Fort Sheridan [Annotator’s Note: Fort Sheridan, Illinois]....

Earl Colson was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in November 1924. He had two brothers. His dad was a caretaker at the...

Walter McNeely was born in St. Paul, Minnesota [Annotator’s Note: in April 1927]. During the Great Depression [...

John Kerner thought he would be taking part in the D-Day invasion [Annotator's Note: the invasion of Normandy on 6 June...

Donald Lewis was in the bottom of a lifeboat that was crowded [Annotator's Note: after the SS Athenia was struck by a...

James "Jim" Geisler was born and raised in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was 18 years old...

Slape and Creger [Annotators Note: Sgt. William Slape and Private John B. Creger] were trying to get back to the...

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