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After basic training, Angelo Joseph Spinato was supposed to go to officer training school and come out as a second...

One night, the battalion command sent John Witmeyer on a patrol behind German lines. Witmeyer took six other men out on...

Word of the German surrender reached Don Carter. The end of the war signals its most dangerous phase as, although the...

The war changed John Scott Campbell's life. He probably would have been a schoolteacher. He loves history. The war made...

Herbert Nelson Fontenot was born in April 1927 in Fenton, Louisiana. His father died when Fontenot was only 11 years...

Hillman James Prestridge was serving in a field artillery unit [Annotator's Note: when he landed with the first wave at...

As the men of 1st Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment packed their gear and prepared to move out to cross the English...

Lloyd Burns knew that the war was coming to an end because he could hear the machine gun fire and artillery fire nearby...

James Jordan and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 333rd Engineer Special Service Regiment] were...

Harold Luers arrived in Scotland [Annotator's Note: with Regimental Headquarters, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Doolan was a navigator on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber that was heavily damaged...

Gilbert S. Shawn flew with Jimmy Stewart [Annotator's Note: later US Air Force Brigadier General James "Jimmy" Stewart...

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