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Stewart Hihn's unit [Annotator's Note: 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] went back to get replacements...

Robert W. Paschal was trained to hate the Germans and the Japanese so that troops would not have a problem shooting at...

Late in the war, Otis Gatewood said, there was a lot of propaganda circulating on the front lines. Hitler [Annotator's...

Terry T. Shima was born in January 1923 outside of Hilo, Hawaii. He grew up on a sugar plantation. His parents both...

Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

On Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th...

Leo Terrebonne was assigned to the 1302nd Engineer General Service Regiment, 1st Battalion, Company C, and he endured a...

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

[Annotator's Note: Charles Walker enlisted in the Navy in January 1945.] He went into the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note...

They crossed the river at Burgson to continue moving towards the camp [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as...

Harry Bell and the rest of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 106th Infantry Division...

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