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Odell Vaughn stepped on a shoebox mine and lost both his legs. Vaughn had collected mines in his barracks bag prior to...

In May 1943, Earl Ervin Clark and the 87th Mountain Infantry [Annotator's Note: 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...

Shiyuza Hayashi walked to Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] with his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 100th...

Norman Raner was born in November 1917 near Guthrie Center, Iowa. He went to high school and then worked in a CC Camp [...

Alexander Jefferson came in the middle of the Tuskegee program. The first program was March 1942 and the last class was...

Rothacker Smith's family moved into his grandfather's house in Detroit before the Great Depression. There, Smith and...

Gowan Duffy remembers around five in the morning [Annotator’s Note: on their way to D-Day, the Allied invasion of...

Chester L. Talley was born in Idaho in 1921. He grew up with one older brother and one older sister. His father was a...

Eugene Dorsey was born in St. Louis, Missouri in July 1924 and grew up in University City [Annotator’s Note: University...

Jack Cohen finished high school and his father wanted him to study cosmetic chemistry in order to take over the family...

Edward C. Cole's most memorable experience of World War 2 was arriving [Annotator's Note: in Leghorn, or Livorno, Italy...

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

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