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Olin Pickens was born in December 1921 near Dumas, Mississippi in the small village of Locum. His father worked as a...

Wilburn K. Ross had his molars knocked out in France by shrapnel. His company commander had sent him and about eight of...

The Germans brought Dominic Frank Poliseno and his fellow prisoners to a camp in Brandenburg [Annotator's Note: Stalag...

Ralph F. Lafferty was shipped back home after being wounded. He departed through the port at Naples [Annotator's Note:...

Kassal remembers they moved very quickly through France, through the Rhone Valley, stopping in various cities like...

Ivan van der Pool was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when he received his orders to go overseas. From there, he boarded the...

Shiyuza Hayashi and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 100th Infantry Battalion] experienced a lot of gunfire and...

Gowan Duffy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1920. He would bounce from one job to another because they...

After his return [Annotator's Note: from a convoy run to Russia], Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. took some time off and then...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Barney Hajiro entered the Army and was immediately required to do manual labor around the Hawaiian Islands in...

Jim Stumpfa did not suffer during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic...

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