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Carl Peterson was born in Foraker, Oklahoma. He had three brothers and a sister and when his mother remarried he got...

Life on base was "awful" according to Edwin Sved. The men lived in tents set up in the mud and took cold showers, but...

While serving in England, there was a ship that gave Lee O. McKinnon and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Calvert (...

Joyce Sherman was born August 1921 in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] at the Women's...

Edward J. Leonard was in a National Guard unit that was federalized. They put out a call for volunteers. Leonard had a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Raymond Cauble if he recalls where he was when he heard the news of the...

William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the US Air Force] flew 123s [Annotator's Note: Fairchild C-123 Provider...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard was sent overseas [Annotation...

Odell Wallace Vaughn was born in December 1921 in Greenville, South Carolina and grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: with the 1st Infantry Division] looked at a close-up of the barbed wire [...

Joseph Hairston ended up going to artillery school. The rest of the Army was segregated, however, OCS [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...

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