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To Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr., Colonel Shower [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Colonel Albert J. Shower] as an...

Joseph Alter first used his personal weapon on a patrol. He was a reconnaissance officer for his battalion [Annotator's...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner remembers when he was playing with an older child who was the son of a local lawyer. The child's...

Joseph Medicine Crow somehow enjoyed war. This is despite some opinions that war is terrible. War allowed him to commit...

Donald Albert Carlson did a lot of training and was assigned an airplane and a crew [Annotator's Note: in preparation...

At the time of his overseas deployment, Morton Brooks had little knowledge about the German treatment of Jews, except...

Bill Connelly was reassigned as an MP [Annotator's Note: military police] with the 98th infantry Division during the...

About the time of the "bridge too far" [Annotator's Note: nickname for Operation Market Garden, Netherlands, 17 to 25...

Paul Wilson joined the 17th Airborne [Annotator's Note: Company A, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne...

Jack Buckner says the biggest problem with Army life is the boredom. They played baseball and card games. On a day off...

Gatewood was born in Decatur, Nebraska in 1921. He lived there until he went into the service. He was in his first...

Richard Field and the other men of 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion had to buy scarves and jackets from the armored...

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