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John K. Ward joined the Army 13 July 1940. He was a recruit for about three months wearing civilian clothes because...

George Kays was born in July 1915 on a farm outside of Cambridge, Ohio. He went to school in a two-room school. In 1929...

Harley Reynolds turned left after getting to the top of the bluff. A man passed Reynolds and tripped a mine which...

When he finished Officer Candidate School, William Blackwood was sent to the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New...

Maurice Zolkower voyaged on Nieuw Amsterdam [Annotator’s Note: Dutch ship SS Nieuw Amsterdam] to Omaha Beach [Annotator...

On 23 May 1944, Harold Baumgarten was transferred, along with Robert Palmer, to Company B [Annotator's Note: Company B...

Richard Gibian thought the ground fire was dangerous. When flying to and from a target, pilots flew in an "S" motion to...

Frank Maresca started his basic training in January [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. He was first sent to Fort Dix for...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax rose through the ranks quickly [Annotator's Note: while assigned to Fort Shafter as an...

William E. Byrnes went overseas to Southern France. Sunken ships littered the harbor as the men debarked onto the shore...

Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...

John Noack notes that it was a sad day when they returned to base. Everyone was down about it. Too many of the guys...

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