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Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...

After the Germans surrendered, Seymour Mermelstein was part of rounding them up to send back to Germany. [Annotator's...

John Luckadoo, known as Lucky, was born in March 1922 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up in Chattanooga. It was a...

Within a week, shipping instructions were posted and George Griffenhagen's name was on the list. They shipped out in...

Jack Appel served in the message center [Annotator's Note: Company B, 17th Signal Operation Battalion, 1st Army]...

John Raaen saw an unbelievable number of ships on the morning of D-Day. There were thousands of ships all spaced apart...

DeQuindre McGlaun was born on a farm in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. He was the youngest of 12 children. They lived...

The only thing Baynham recalls about any of his missions except for Dessau was the flak.The day after he was shot down...

On 9 June [Annotator's Note: 9 June 1944, during the Normandy invasion], they sent out platoons into a couple of fields...

James McDermott considered the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress the best airplane there was. He did not like the B-24 [...

In January or February 1945 the company commander called Charles Coolidge to the company CP [Annotators note: Command...

Jack Weiss got off his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Columbia (CL-56)] and went on the South Dakota [Annotator's Note:...

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