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Marvin Perrett was born in September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was on his way home from church with his...

Carl Payne went to Italy right after the invasion started. They landed in the Port of Rome [Annotator’s Note: Rome,...

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

Donald Lewis has no memory of the ship's cabin and knows this from his mother's written summary of their trip. [...

The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Larson to talk about what an average day was like for him.] His average...

Barbara Heming applied for a job with several different companies but heard nothing back from them. She did not have...

Daniel Altman’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was shot on the beach of Normandy [...

Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] entered...

William Cassady’s last mission was Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945; Iwo...

John Ericson went walking in Bowne Park in Flushing [Annotator's Note: Flushing, Queens, New York, New York] with his...

Hewitt Brian Gomez was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 1925. He recalled that he was playing football at a...

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