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Paul Hissey believes that World War 2 forced him to grow up. He was also able to go back to school. His friendships...

[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...

Battle Malone Barksdale was the youngest of seven children. He was born in February 1916 in Mississippi [Annotator's...

The training at Tuskegee was rigorous. There was a lot of hazing. Leahr believes that they were trained as good as...

Frank Forcinella was wounded on 18 January [Annotator's Note: 18 January 1945]. He was back with his unit [Annotator's...

[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, there is talking audible in the background] Chuck Bednarik served as a waist...

During World War II it was the Japanese that occupied the Aleutian Islands, part of the United States. The attitude was...

After James Siracuse was shot down he lost track of his friend Petey. Siracuse ended up in Jackson, Mississippi after...

Alexander White enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. There he met his wife, a native of...

Leon Schafer and the crew [Annotator's Note: of the USS LST-502] got orders home in November 1944. They could not wait...

Edward Zarger did not talk about his war experiences for the first few years. He would start to shake, and he found...

Robert W. Paschal’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his plane was shot up on a mission. He fought...

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