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W. P. “Bill” Allen was assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] hit a mine not far the...

William Burrus was going through Plauen [Annotator's Note: Plauen, Germany] when he met a young German girl. It was a...

Everything was rationed during the war. George Grugett's dad told him to go to the ration board and get gas stamps. He...

Robert Martin got married in 1950. He bought his first house on the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or...

Wallace Hurley contracted pneumonia during the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the hospital for four days. Following his...

Marion Bahlinger recalled one man was assigned as the guard to the group of 20 American prisoners. He was an older man...

Roswell Weil was on Omaha Beach [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy, France] bringing in supplies. His depot [...

Opal Grapes saw the first patients arriving by midmorning or noon [Annotator’s Note: on D-Day, 6 June 1944]. The...

Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...

Sabol was born in 1924 and knew when the war broke out that he would have to serve in one branch or another. He chose...

The racism James B. Jones experienced was bad. He thought it was worse for northerners who went to the south. In 1935...

The next day Ralph Francis Hogan was imprisoned at a compound, the city was attacked. Instead of going in a bomb...

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